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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: -3. Data flooding attack: The intruder sends a high number of connection requests to the target node until resources of the target node are completely wasted. The target node denies service after a period of time and wastes its time serving connection requests only. 4.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. A DDoS attack uses more than one unique IP address or machines, often from thousands of hosts infected with malware.

Detailed explanation-3: -Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are cyberattacks that aim to make a website or network unavailable to its users by overwhelming it with traffic or flooding it with requests. The goal of a DoS attack is to disrupt the normal functioning of a system or website, making it unavailable to its intended users.

Detailed explanation-4: -A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a low-level volumetric attack, designed to overwhelm the server by the number of requests being made and make it unavailable to its users.

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