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YOU ARE CONSULTING A SMALL ORGANIZATION THAT RELIES ON EMPLOYEES WHO WORK FROM HOME AND ON THE ROAD. A HACK HAS COMPROMISED THE NETWORK BY DENYING REMOTE ACCESS TO THE COMPANY USING A SCRIPT. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SECURITY CONTROLS DID THE HACKER EXPLOIT?

A. PASSWORD COMPLEXITY
B. DOS
C. ACCOUNT LOCKOUT
D. PASSWORD LENGTH

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Final answer:

The hacker most likely exploited a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. This type of cyberattack denies remote access by overloading the system or network with traffic or crashing it with a script, which matches the description provided.

Step-by-step explanation:

If a small organization that relies on employees who work from home and on the road experiences a hack that denies remote access to the company using a script, it's likely that the hacker exploited a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. A DoS attack is designed to make a network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the internet.

This can be accomplished by overwhelming the target with a flood of internet traffic, or by crashing the system with a type of software attack that includes the use of scripts.

Options A (Password Complexity) and D (Password Length) are typically considered preventive measures against unauthorized access due to weak passwords being guessed or cracked.

Option C (Account lockout) relates to a security feature that prevents a login after a certain number of failed attempts, which is a measure against brute-force attacks. However, neither of these options directly relates to the denial of remote access through a network compromise, which is characteristic of a DoS attack as described in Option B.

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