ITPEC IP October 2023 Question 45
ITPEC IP October 2023 — Question 45 of 100
The website suffered a DDoS attack because many compromised IoT devices simultaneously flooded it with connections and exhausted its capacity. The infected devices form a botnet, and the distributed sources make the traffic harder to block than a denial-of-service attack from one origin. The objective is loss of availability.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- (b) Cross-site scripting injects script content that executes in users' browsers
- (c) Dictionary attack tries likely passwords or keys from a word list
- (d) Social engineering manipulates people into revealing information or taking unsafe actions
Key rule: Coordinated traffic from many controlled devices that overwhelms a service is distributed denial of service, or DDoS.
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