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Which are two denial-of-service attacks? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is B. ping of death E. UDP flooding. Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks aim to make a service unavailable to legitimate users, often by overwhelming systems with malformed or excessive traffic.

Submitted by salim_om· Mar 6, 2026Security Concepts

Question

Which are two denial-of-service attacks? (Choose two.)

Options

  • ATCP connections
  • Bping of death
  • Cman-in-the-middle
  • Dcode-red
  • EUDP flooding

How the community answered

(46 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    89% (41)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    7% (3)

Why each option

Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks aim to make a service unavailable to legitimate users, often by overwhelming systems with malformed or excessive traffic.

ATCP connections

TCP connections are a fundamental part of network communication, not an attack type itself, although specific attacks like SYN floods exploit TCP connection establishment to cause DoS.

Bping of deathCorrect

The ping of death is a classic denial-of-service attack where an attacker sends a malformed or oversized ICMP echo request packet to a target, causing the system to crash or become unresponsive upon processing it.

Cman-in-the-middle

A man-in-the-middle attack involves an attacker intercepting and potentially altering communication between two parties, primarily focusing on confidentiality and integrity, not directly on service availability.

Dcode-red

Code Red was a computer worm that exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft IIS, primarily for propagation and defacing websites; while it could incidentally cause DoS due to resource consumption, it's categorized as a worm, not a general DoS attack type.

EUDP floodingCorrect

UDP flooding is a denial-of-service attack that overwhelms a target system or network with a large volume of UDP (User Datagram Protocol) packets, consuming bandwidth and system resources, thereby making legitimate services unavailable.

Concept tested: Denial-of-Service attack types

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/security-center/denial-of-service.html

Topics

#Denial of Service#Ping of Death#UDP Flood

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