COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
TYPES OF THREATS AND ATTACKS
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Question
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Disruption of connection between a client and server to prevent access to a service.
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Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attack
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Phishing
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Man-in-the-middle attack
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DNS Tunelling
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A denial-of-service attack is designed to slow or take down machines or networks making them inaccessible for the people who need them. Information systems, devices or other resources on the network or machine-email, online accounts, ecommerce sites, and other services-become unusable in a DoS condition.
Detailed explanation-2: -A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.
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