SYN Flood
nounverified· unreviewed·updated Aug 30, 2026
A denial of service attack that sends a host more TCP SYN packets (request to synchronize sequence numbers, used when opening a connection) than the protocol implementation can handle.
MWESANS Glossary of Security Terms
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- SYN Floods
- possessive
- SYN Flood's
- pluralpossessive
- SYN Floods'