Chapter 7

Question 1

An action that prevents or impairs the authorized use of networks, systems, or applications by exhausting resources such as central processing units (CPU), memory, bandwidth, and disk space.

Answer 1

denial of service (DoS)

Question 2

___ ____ uses packets whose structure triggers a bug in the system’s network handling software, causing it to crash. this means the system can no longer communicate over the network until this software is reloaded, generally by rebooting the target system.

Answer 2

Poison pasket