312-50V13 · Question #128
What do Trinoo, TFN2k, WinTrinoo, T-Sight, and Stracheldraht have in common?
The correct answer is C. All are DDOS tools. Trinoo, TFN2k, WinTrinoo, T-Sight, and Stracheldraht are all historical examples of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) tools used to launch large-scale attacks.
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- AAll are hacking tools developed by the legion of doom
- BAll are tools that can be used not only by hackers, but also security personnel
- CAll are DDOS tools
- DAll are tools that are only effective against Windows
- EAll are tools that are only effective against Linux
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(57 responses)- A2% (1)
- B2% (1)
- C91% (52)
- D5% (3)
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Trinoo, TFN2k, WinTrinoo, T-Sight, and Stracheldraht are all historical examples of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) tools used to launch large-scale attacks.
While these are hacking tools, there is no direct evidence or common knowledge linking all of them exclusively to "the Legion of Doom" hacking group.
While some security professionals might analyze such tools, their primary design and historical use are for malicious hacking, not for legitimate security personnel.
These tools (Trinoo, Tribal Flood Network (TFN), TFN2k, WinTrinoo, T-Sight, Stracheldraht) were prominent in the late 1990s and early 2000s as some of the first widely used tools to orchestrate distributed denial-of-service attacks. They allowed attackers to control large networks of compromised 'zombie' machines to flood target systems with traffic, rendering them unavailable.
These tools were designed to be platform-agnostic or had variants for both Windows and Unix-like systems, not exclusively effective against Windows.
These tools targeted various operating systems; they were not exclusively effective against Linux, with some being Unix-based and others Windows-based.
Concept tested: Historical DDoS tools
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