Editing Denial-of-service attack (section)

===Shrew attack===
The shrew attack is a denial-of-service attack on the [[Transmission Control Protocol]] where the attacker employs [[man-in-the-middle attack|man-in-the-middle techniques]]. It exploits a weakness in TCP's re-transmission timeout mechanism, using short synchronized bursts of traffic to disrupt TCP connections on the same link.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Yu Chen | last2 = Kai Hwang | last3 = Yu-Kwong Kwok | doi = 10.1109/LCN.2005.70 | chapter = Filtering of shrew DDoS attacks in frequency domain | title = The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary (LCN'05)l | pages = 8 pp | year = 2005 | hdl = 10722/45910 | isbn = 978-0-7695-2421-4 | s2cid = 406686 }}</ref>