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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.
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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)- A2% (1)
- B89% (41)
- C2% (1)
- D7% (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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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