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) ...
Cloudflare processes 60 million HTTP requests per second, of which about 70% are TCP connections and about 30% are UDP/QUIC connections. Of these, only about 80% of data exchanges are actually ...
Tuesday, May 22, started out as just another day at CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. By day's end, CERT, widely regarded as the Fort Knox of computer security, ...
This may end up being a more windows-centric question, but thought I'd give it a shot here. TL;DR version: Does a RST packet shorten or eliminate the normal 2MSL timeout needed before a tcp socket can ...
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) ...
GUEST OPINION: In recent years, distributed denial of service attacks have become more frequent and sophisticated. Bad actors continue to find new ways to flood target networks with massive-scale ...
One notable aspect of network scanners is their protocol dependence. Most scanners out there are TCP/IP-savvy. While it's true that TCP/IP is routed over the Internet, if you have a VPN or other ...
Last week we discussed ports in some detail. This week, even more detail. To understand how ports work and the ways they behave, we need to understand how TCP/IP functions. Ports are numbered from one ...
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