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These are called SYN attacks, similar to DoS - Denial of service. More info The SYN flood attack sends TCP connections requests faster than a machine can process them. * attacker creates a random source address for each packet * SYN flag set in each packet is a request to open a new connection to the server from the spoofed IP address * victim responds to spoofed IP address, then waits for confirmation that never arrives (waits about 3 minutes) * victim's connection table fills up waiting for r…