An assault on a network that prevents a TCP/IP server from servicing other users. It is accomplished by not sending the final acknowledgment to the server's SYN-ACK response (SYNchronize-ACKnowledge) ...
I'm looking for a numeric definition of a sYN flood. i.e. How many SYN packets without an ACK would it take to constitute a "flood". We're needing a definition to establish a threshold past which less ...