ITPEC IP October 2021 Question 36
ITPEC IP October 2021 — Question 36 of 100
Flooding a network service with a large number of requests to interrupt it is a denial-of-service attack. The traffic exhausts resources such as bandwidth, connections, CPU time, or memory so legitimate users cannot obtain the service.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- spying on traffic is eavesdropping or packet sniffing
- trying many credential combinations is a brute-force attack
- pretending to be another person is impersonation or spoofing
Key rule: A DoS attack targets availability by overwhelming or otherwise disabling a service.
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