Degrade Services and DoS Attacks

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What type of TCP packet is used in a SYN Flood attack?

  • ACK
  • SYN-ACK
  • SYN (correct)
  • ICMP

In a Ping Flood attack, which protocol is used to flood the victim?

  • HTTP
  • TCP
  • ICMP (correct)
  • UDP

What is the impact of a SYN Flood attack on the victim?

  • Crashing due to insufficient memory and CPU power
  • Utilizing bandwidth
  • Running out of memory and crashing (correct)
  • Consuming CPU cycles

What type of packets flood a webserver in an HTTP Flood attack?

<p>Application layer web requests (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the goal of a Ping Flood attack?

<p>Flooding the victim with ICMP packets (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why might a victim crash during an HTTP Flood attack?

<p>Due to consuming bandwidth and CPU cycles (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are botnets used for in DoS attacks?

<p>To work together in carrying out an attacker's goals (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What happens when a victim is flooded with SYN packets in a SYN Flood attack?

<p>Memory is allocated for each false connection leading to a crash (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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