Types of DOS Attacks

Question 1

Flood Attacks

Answer 1

A specialised DOS attack that which attempts to overwhelm a server or host via numerous packets that exceed what can be processed at a given point.
Types of Flood Attacks: A) Ping Flood {The Classic} B) Smurf Attack {Why is there only one female Smurf?} C) Fraggle Attack D) SYN Flood E) XMAS Attack

Question 2

Ping of Death

Answer 2

An attack that send an oversized and malformed packet to another computer or server.

Question 3

Tear Drop Attack

Answer 3

Attack that breaks apart packets into IP fragments, modifies them with overlapping and oversized payloads, and sends them to a victim machine.

Question 4

Permanent DoS

Answer 4

Attack which exploits a security flaw to permanently break a networking device by reflashing its firmware.

Question 5

Fork Bomb

Answer 5

Attack that creates a large number of processes to use up the available processing power of a computer.

Question 6

Ping Flood

Answer 6

((Type of Flood Attack)) An attack that attempts to flood the server or host by sending to many ICMP echo request packets (which are know as pings).

Question 7

Smurf Attack

Answer 7

Attacker sends a ping to the subnet broadcast address and devices reply to a spoofed IP (Victim Server in Normie speak) using up bandwidth and processing power.

Question 8

Fraggle Attack

Answer 8

Attacker sends a UDP echo packet to port 7 {ECHO} and port 19 {CHARGEN} to flood a server with UDP packets.

Question 9

SYN Flood Attack

Answer 9

Variant of a DOS attack where attacker initiates multiple TCP sessions but never completes the 3-way handshake.

Question 10

XMAS Attack

Answer 10

A specialised network scan that sets the FIN, PSH, and URG flags and can cause a device to crash or reboot.