COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

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NETWORK SECURITY AND CYBERSECURITY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
An organized attack using hundreds to thousands of bots / nodes to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with a ood of trac.
A
DDA
B
DDOS
C
DBA
D
DNS
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources.

Detailed explanation-2: -DDoS is an acronym for distributed denial of service. A DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to make a server or a network resource unavailable to users. It is achieved by saturating a service, which results in its temporary suspension or interruption.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network.

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