COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
TYPES OF COMPUTER SECURITY
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Question
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Bonet
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Biometrics
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Denial of Service
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Malware
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Detailed explanation-1: -Flood attacks are also known as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. In a flood attack, attackers send a very high volume of traffic to a system so that it cannot examine and allow permitted network traffic.
Detailed explanation-2: -A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a non-intrusive internet attack made to take down the targeted website or slow it down by flooding the network, server or application with fake traffic.
Detailed explanation-3: -A denial of service (DoS) is a type of cyber attack that floods a computer or network so it can’t respond to requests. A distributed DoS (DDoS) does the same thing, but the attack originates from a computer network. Cyber attackers often use a flood attack to disrupt the “handshake” process and carry out a DoS.