How do SYN cookies work to mitigate the effects of SYN flood attacks, and what are the key components involved in encoding and decoding the sequence number to verify the legitimacy of a TCP connection?
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
by EITCA Academy
SYN cookies are a well-established technique used to mitigate SYN flood attacks, a type of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack targeting the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) handshake. To comprehend how SYN cookies function, it is essential to understand the TCP three-way handshake and the nature of SYN flood attacks. The TCP three-way handshake is a process used