Network-Level Attacks (sniffing, DoS/DDoS, Session Hijacking) ECSS Practice Questions (Page 11)

Questions 51–51

1. 51application · medium

   A small e-commerce website is experiencing intermittent outages. The server logs show a high volume of incomplete TCP handshakes from many different source IP addresses, exhausting the server's connection table. Which type of attack is this?

   • AAn application-layer attack that sends slow HTTP requests to tie up web server threads.
   • BA volumetric attack that floods the network link with massive amounts of traffic.
   • CA DNS amplification attack that uses spoofed queries to overwhelm the server with responses.
   • DA protocol attack that exploits the TCP handshake to exhaust server resources.
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