COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
TYPES OF THREATS AND ATTACKS
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Question
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What is meant by a denial of service (DOS) attack?
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Designed to make a network or website grind to a halt by using ‘Zombie’ computers to flood the network/websites with useless network communication such as repeated login requests at the same time.
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Criminals use packet analysers or ‘packet sniffers’ to intercept data traffic. Criminals try and steal logins, passwords, credit card numbers.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
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