Farouk has an app that lets him see real-time traffic on his online store's website. He is pleasantly surprised to see a sudden surge in activity, but it continues to grow. The servers become overloaded and the site crashes
Farouk suspects this is the work of Jon, a fired employee. What did Jon produce?
A) a worm
B) a Trojan horse
C) a denial-of-service attack
D) a spam blast
E) a phishing expedition
Answer: C
Explanation: C) A denial-of-service (DoS) attack consists of making repeated requests of a computer system or network, thereby overloading it and denying legitimate users access to it.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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