July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
10h 54m
English
An ACK flood takes advantage of the three-way handshake that exists when a client connects to a server. The first step entails the client sending an SYN packet, and a SYN-ACK packet is sent in response from the server. The client then finally replies with an ACK packet and the connection is open for data. An ACK flood takes one of two forms:
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