SYN flood attack is a form of?

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SYN flood attack is a form of?
A . Denial of Service attack
B . Man in the middle attack
C . Spoofing attack

Answer: A

Explanation:

A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack in which an attacker sends a succession of SYN requests to a target’s system in an attempt to consume enough server resources to make the system unresponsive to legitimate traffic.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_flood

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