synflood

English edit

Etymology edit

SYN + flood

Noun edit

synflood (plural synfloods)

(Internet) A denial-of-service attack in which the attacker sends a succession of SYN (synchronization) requests to the target system in an attempt to consume its resources and make the system unresponsive to legitimate traffic.

Verb edit

synflood (third-person singular simple present synfloods, present participle synflooding, simple past and past participle synflooded)

(Internet) To carry out an attack of this kind.

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