NETWORK SECURITY
INTRODUCTION
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Question
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Which of these attack occurs when a hacker inserts itself between the communications of a client and a server?
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Man-in-the-Middle
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IP Spoofing
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Replay
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Social engineering
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack is a cyber attack in which a threat actor puts themselves in the middle of two parties, typically a user and an application, to intercept their communications and data exchanges and use them for malicious purposes like making unauthorized purchases or hacking.
Detailed explanation-2: -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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