Question 5: What is a SYN flood attack, and why is it a significant threat?

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Question 5: What is a SYN flood attack, and why is it a significant threat?
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A SYN flood attack exploits the TCP handshake process by sending a flood of SYN packets without completing the handshake, exhausting server resources.