MODULE 6

Question 1

Backscatter trafficking:

Answer 1

Advertising unused IP addresses to monitor attacks

Question 2

Categories of resources that could be affected by DoS attacks:

Answer 2

• Network bandwidth
• System resources
• Application resources

Question 3

Flooding attack types:

Answer 3

• ICMP flood
• UDP flood
• TCP SYN flood

Question 3

SYN spoofing:

Answer 3

Attacking the ability of a server to respond to connection requests

Question 3

SIP flood:

Answer 3

Exploiting a single invite request that triggers resource consumption

Question 3

Amplification attack:

Answer 3

Sending a packet that generates multiple response packets with a spoofed address of the target to intermediaries

Question 3

SIP stands for _____

Answer 3

Session Initiation Protocol

Question 4

Reflection attack:

Answer 4

Sending packets to an intermediary with a spoofed address of the target

Question 4

Ways to identify DoS type of attack:

Answer 4

• Analyze packets
• Filter upstream
• Fix bugs

Question 4

Application-based bandwidth attack:

Answer 4

An attack that forces a system to execute resource-consuming operations

Question 4

DoS attack preventions:

Answer 4

• TCP
• CAPTCHAs
• Mirrored servers
• Blocking spoofed addresses
• Blocking suspicious services
• Blocking IP directed broadcasts

Question 4

IDS stands for _____

Answer 4

Intrusion Detection System

Question 4

IDS:

Answer 4

A detector of abnormal traffic patterns