Denial of Service 2.4

Question 1

Denial of Service

Answer 1

• Force a service to fail
• Can take advantage of a design failure or vulnerability
• Cause a system to be unavailable
• Doesn’t have to be a complicated attack.

Question 2

“Friendly” DOS

Answer 2

• Unintentional DoSing

Question 3

Ways to “Friendly” DoS

Answer 3

• Network DoS
• Bandwidth Dos

Question 4

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)

Answer 4

• DoS attack employing multiple attacking systems
• Denies the use of or access to a specific service or system
• Attacker has fewer resources than the victim

Question 5

DDoS Reflection and Amplification

Answer 5

• Attackers are able to a small attack into a big attack
• Turns the everyday internet services against the victim