Question

________ floods a computer with requests until it shuts down and refuses to answer any requests for information.

a) A Trojan horse
b) A DDoS attack
c) Port blocking
d) A polymorphic virus

Answer 1

This is known as a DDoS attack, which stands for Distributed Denial of Service attack. This type of DoS attack uses multiple compromised computers sending requests at a time to overload the target computer with information requests.