Which statement about the difference between a denial-of-service attack and a distributed denial of service attack is true?

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Options

• ADos attack are launched from one host, and DDoS attack are launched from multiple host.
• BDoS attack and DDOS attack have no differences
• CDDoS attacks are launched from one host, and DoS attacks are launched from multiple host.
• DDos attack only use flooding to compromise a network, and DDoS attacks only use other methods

• A
  89% (25)
• C
  4% (1)
• D
  7% (2)

Explanation

A DoS (Denial of Service) attack originates from a single host and attempts to overwhelm a target system or network, making it unavailable to legitimate users. A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is a more powerful variant that uses multiple hosts - often a botnet of thousands of compromised machines - to flood the target simultaneously, making it much harder to block or mitigate. Option B is false because they are clearly different in scale and origin. Option C has the definitions reversed. Option D is false because both DoS and DDoS can use flooding and other methods interchangeably.

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