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The attack in which the attacker sends a fragmented message that the victim cannot reconstruct is a(n) ________ attack.

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Answer:A teardrop attack

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A teardrop attack also called denial-of-service attack is one which an attacker, usually a hacker sends many fragmented bug data messages to a victim's machine causing a crash in the device. This is because data moves in small data packets of whose transmission should follow layers according to the model of the devise be it OSI or TCP/IP model. Now when a hacker continually sends huge amounts of packets of bug data, the process of data transmission fails and packet data becomes overlapped, making the victim 's device machine in disarray and difficult to reconstruct while trying to rearrange them. When the hacker continually sends in more bug data packets to the already confused machine, The machine system crashes.

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