Etymograph

English

synflood

SYN + flood

A compound of SYN + flood

Ancient Greek σῠ́ν ‘with’

English SYN

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- ‘to swim, flow’

Proto-Germanic *flōduz ‘river’

Proto-West Germanic *flōdu ‘river’

Old English flōd ‘flowing of the tide’

Middle English flod ‘a river; a waterbody that moves in one direction’

English flood

Today it means

noun A denial-of-service attack in which the attacker sends a succession of SYN (synchronization) requests to the target system in an attempt to consume its resources and make the system unresponsive to legitimate traffic.

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