INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNET
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Question
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It is a combined Smurf attack and SYN flood.
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It uses a network of unsuspecting systems to conduct the attack.
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A DDos attack can be conducted with a SYN flood or Smurf attack.
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They can overwhelm a system and prevent legitimate access.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following is true of a DDoS attack? Attack traffic comes from lots of different hosts; The “Distributed” in DDoS means that the attack traffic is distributed across a large number of hosts, resulting in the attack coming from many different machines.
Detailed explanation-2: -A SYN flood, also known as a TCP SYN flood, is a type of denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that sends massive numbers of SYN requests to a server to overwhelm it with open connections.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following do not comes under network layer DoS flooding? Explanation: Network layer DoS attack includes attacks such as NTP amplification, SYN flooding, UDP flooding and DNS amplification. DNS query flooding does not come under the Network layer DoS attack.