SYN Flood Explained. How to Prevent this Attack from Taking over your Server

SYN flood is a type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack in which a threat actor floods a server with several requests, but doesn’t acknowledge back the connection, leaving it half-opened, usually with the purpose of consuming server resources, which leads to denying other users access to that server. In this article, we’ll explore how a SYN […]

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