Which of the following BEST describes a denial of service attack?

A. Sara, the attacker, attempts to have the receiving server run a payload using programming commonly found on web servers.
B. Sara, the attacker, overwhelms a system or application, causing it to crash and bring the server down to cause an outage.
C. Sara, the attacker, overwhelms a system or application, causing it to crash, and then redirects the memory address to read from a location holding the payload.
D. Sara, the attacker, attempts to have the receiving server pass information to a back-end database from which it can compromise the stored information


Answer: B. Sara, the attacker, overwhelms a system or application, causing it to crash and bring the server down to cause an outage.

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