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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?

Application layer web requests Signup and view all the answers

What is the goal of a Ping Flood attack?

Flooding the victim with ICMP packets Signup and view all the answers

Why might a victim crash during an HTTP Flood attack?

Due to consuming bandwidth and CPU cycles Signup and view all the answers

What are botnets used for in DoS attacks?

To work together in carrying out an attacker's goals Signup and view all the answers

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

Memory is allocated for each false connection leading to a crash Signup and view all the answers