Mark Graff and Ken van Wyk write about 1996 attack on Internet networks. They say the TCP SYN flood attack exemplifies a multitude of different secure coding issues. They discuss design flaws, errors in implementation, and various issues of secure program operation. The attacks represent failure during every phase of the software development lifecycle. We’ll come back to this story again and again throughout this book to explore the vulnerabilities and reasons for those vulnerabilities. We ask readers to ask how to build secure applications from the best tables inside.”]
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