NETWORK SECURITY
INTRODUCTION
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Question
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Vulnerability attack
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Bandwidth flooding
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Connection flooding
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -There are two general methods of DoS attacks: flooding services or crashing services. Flood attacks occur when the system receives too much traffic for the server to buffer, causing them to slow down and eventually stop. Popular flood attacks include: Buffer overflow attacks – the most common DoS attack.
Detailed explanation-2: -An effort to take down a machine or network resource is known as a DOS attack.
Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of targets might include email, online banking, websites, or any other service relying on a targeted network or computer. There are different types of DoS attacks such as resource exhaustion and flood attacks.
Detailed explanation-4: -Application-layer Flood. In this attack type, an attacker simply floods the service with requests from a spoofed IP address in an attempt to slow or crash the service, illustrated in . Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) Unintended Denial of Service Attacks.