CERT Advisory wrote:
> Topic: TCP SYN Flooding and IP Spoofing Attacks
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> *** This advisory supersedes CA-95:01. ***
>
> Two "underground magazines" have recently published code to conduct
> denial-of-service attacks by creating TCP "half-open" connections. This code
> is actively being used to attack sites connected to the Internet. There is,
> as yet, no complete solution for this problem, but there are steps that can be
> taken to lessen its impact. Although discovering the origin of the attack is
> difficult, it is possible to do; we have received reports of attack origins
> being identified.
-- R.M. Samik-Ibrahim: VLSM TJT, Virtual LSM -- Teknologi Jari Tengah