Last August, academic researchers discovered a potent new method for knocking sites offline: a fleet of misconfigured servers more than 100,000 strong that can amplify floods of junk data to ...
Cybercriminals appear to have finally figured out a way to launch highly effective distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using TCP amplification — something most attackers have typically ...
The specific type of TCP attack used in the recent spate of DDoS efforts were TCP SYN-ACK reflection attacks. The last 30 days has seen a renewed increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...
The procedure that takes place between two TCP/IP nodes to establish a connection. Known as the "SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK handshake," computer A transmits a SYNchronize packet to computer B, which sends back ...