Question

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 attack

I got this question in exam.

My doubt stems from TCP-2 topic in chapter Transport Layer of Computer Network

Answer 1

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.