New Article Announcement: Hardening the TCP/IP stack to Syn Attacks

From: Dan Hanson (dhanson_at_securityfocus.com)
Date: 09/11/03

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    Among a number of articles added to the Securityfocus.com web site today,
    the following might be of particular interest to the subscribers of this
    list.

    Hardening the TCP/IP stack to SYN attacks
    By Mariusz Burdach Sep 10, 2003
    This article discusses methods of hardening the TCP/IP stack of various
    operating systems to make servers more resistant to SYN flooding and SYN
    spoofing Denial of Service (DOS) attacks.
    http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1729

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