Question

Luke is frustrated as he is often criticized by his employer for not meeting deadlines. He decides to take revenge on his employer for criticizing him in front of all his peers. Luke floods his organization's server with multiple requests so that the server can no longer handle genuine requests. This impacts the productivity of the organization. This act of sabotage is called ________.

A. a denial of service attack​B. ​Wi-fi piggybackingC. ​war drivingD. ​a brick breaking attack

Answer 1

Answer: A. Denial of service attack

Explanation: Denial of service attack (DOS) is define as an attack that occurs when multiple systems flood a bandwidth of a targeted system, done by one or more severs . example is when a botnet is flooding a targeted system with traffic.

In this case Luke floods his organization servers with multiple request so that the server can no longer take genuine request.