TCP Resource Exhaustion Attacks

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

It is only peripherally related to Nmap, but there was a lot of news
yesterday regarding vaguely described attacks on TCP services.  The
research was done by the UnicornScan folks.  I've speculated on the
details and implications here:

http://insecure.org/stf/tcp-dos-attack-explained.html

Cheers,
-F

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