COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
TYPES OF THREATS AND ATTACKS
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Question
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Distributed denial of service attack
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Zombies in movies attacking
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Zombie dogs eating computers
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The denied screen you get
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A network to create zombie computers to flood in access in to a website
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In a DDoS attack, cybercriminals take advantage of normal behavior that occurs between network devices and servers, often targeting the networking devices that establish a connection to the internet. Therefore, attackers focus on the edge network devices (e.g., routers, switches), rather than individual servers.
Detailed explanation-2: -An example of this type of attack is a domain name system amplification attack, which makes requests to a DNS server using the target’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. The server then overwhelms the target with responses.
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