INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
COMPUTER NETWORKS AND THE INTERNET
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Question
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What is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?
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An attempt by a government to deny Internet access to its citizens
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An attempt to deny access to a website by flooding the website’s servers with millions of requests from different computers
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An attempt by one user to deny service to another user by posting malicious material on a social network
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An attempt by an Internet user to access private information stored in a private database
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is a category of malicious cyber-attacks that hackers or cybercriminals employ in order to make an online service, network resource or host machine unavailable to its intended users on the Internet.
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