Answer:
4. A Denial of Service attack (DDOS attack).
Explanation:
A DDOS attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic to a service.
In essence, it sends an enormous amount of requests to the service, until the server is overwhelmed because it can't handle that much traffic, and collapses in an overflow.
Thus, regular users are not able to access their services.
Usually, attackers use a botnet, a network of "zombie" computers that have been previously infected with a malware that allows the attacker to remotely control them, then the botnet starts to send a flood of traffic from different locations, and make the attacker difficult to detect or track.
Answer:
Option(c) is the correct answer.
Explanation:
Cross-site scripting is the type of security breach that are usually found in the software applications.The main objective of cross site scripting it is used by the hackers to exploit the data security.
- The cross site scripting is the collection of web pages that enables people to insert the text like comment, name stores it afterwards it save the data and then it appears to the other users.
- Others options are incorrect because they are not related to given scenario.
192.168 suggests class C networks which have a 24 bit netmask (255.255.255.0) but you haven't provided enough info, like the netmask of a working machine, to be definite.
