FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY

TYPES OF NETWORK SECURITY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Flooding a server with useless traffic causes servers to become overloaded preventing them responding to legitimate client-server requests from users.
A
Malware
B
Surfing
C
Denial of service attack
D
Configuration
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A DDoS attack means distributed denial of service attack, one of the many types of cyber crimes. In this attack, the server is flooded with unwanted and fake traffic. A DDoS attack is made with the help of numerous computer systems of online devices that are compromised as traffic sources.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an attack meant to shut down a machine or network, making it inaccessible to its intended users. DoS attacks accomplish this by flooding the target with traffic, or sending it information that triggers a crash.

Detailed explanation-3: -A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers.

Detailed explanation-4: -For this, it is essential to have multi-level protection strategies that use intrusion prevention and threat management systems. These systems can use anti-spam, content filtering, VPN, firewalls, load balancing, and security layers to spot and block attacks before they overwhelm your network.

Detailed explanation-5: -Introduction. 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.

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