Cybercriminals appear to have finally figured out a way to launch highly effective distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using TCP amplification — something most attackers have typically ...

The specific type of TCP attack used in the recent spate of DDoS efforts were TCP SYN-ACK reflection attacks. The last 30 days has seen a renewed increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...

Radware has found itself in 2019 defending against what it calls a "steady" rise in TCP DDoS reflection attacks. Since low-bandwidth TCP reflection attacks were thought in the past not to be able to ...

Cloudflare processes 60 million HTTP requests per second, of which about 70% are TCP connections and about 30% are UDP/QUIC connections. Of these, only about 80% of data exchanges are actually ...

The procedure that takes place between two TCP/IP nodes to establish a connection. Known as the "SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK handshake," computer A transmits a SYNchronize packet to computer B, which sends back ...

Last week we discussed ports in some detail. This week, even more detail. To understand how ports work and the ways they behave, we need to understand how TCP/IP functions. Ports are numbered from one ...