Discussion
When customers of a Web site are unable to access it due to flooding of fake network traffic, it is known as
Answer: D
It is known as a denial of service attack.
In a denial of service (DoS) attack, an attacker floods a website or server with so much fake traffic or so many requests that it is overwhelmed and cannot serve genuine users. When the traffic comes from many compromised computers at once (a botnet), it is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
A virus is self-replicating malicious code, a Trojan horse is malicious software disguised as a useful program, and cracking means breaking into systems or breaking software protection. None of them describes making a site unavailable by flooding it.
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