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SYNC flooding attack belongs to a type of security attack known as ___________(a) SYNC flooding attack(b) Active attack(c) Passive attack(d) Denial-of-service attackI got this question in exam.My doubt stems from TCP-2 topic in chapter Transport Layer of Computer Network

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The correct choice is (d) Denial-of-SERVICE attack

For explanation I WOULD say: During SYNC flooding the system collapses and DENIES service to every request, making it a DOS attack. Some other DoS attacks are bandwidth flooding, connection flooding and UDP flooding.



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