Denial of Service 2.4

Question 1

A […] attacks goal is to force a service to fail and cause a system to be unavailable

Answer 1

Denial of Service

Question 2

[…] DoSing is when a non malicious person accidentally causes a denial of service.

Answer 2

Unintentional

Question 3

A […] DoS can be created by a layer 2 loop without STP configured

Answer 3

Network

Question 4

A […] DoS can happen when a very large file is being downloaded over a slow internet connection

Answer 4

Bandwidth

Question 5

A […] attack uses many computers to bring down a service

Ex: A traffic spike

Answer 5

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

Question 6

[…] are used by attackers to make it easier for them to control many computers at once (thousands or millions of them)

Answer 6

BotNets

Question 7

[…] uses BotNets and protocols that provide more information than is needed to increase the traffic that is being sent, resulting in a denial of service.

Think ICMP packets, DNS queries, NTP

Answer 7

DDoS Amplification and Reflection