ITPEC IP October 2020 Question 44
ITPEC IP October 2020 — Question 44 of 100
The website suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack. Many malware-infected IoT devices acted together as a botnet and sent simultaneous connection attempts, exhausting the target's capacity and stopping its service.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- cross-site scripting injects script that runs in users' browsers
- a dictionary attack tries likely password candidates
- social engineering manipulates people into revealing information or taking unsafe actions
Key rule: DDoS uses many distributed sources to overwhelm a target's network or computing resources and deny legitimate service.
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