Which of the Following Hacker Tricks Involves Flooding a Web

question 35

Multiple Choice

Which of the following hacker tricks involves flooding a Web site, with so much useless traffic that the site becomes overwhelmed and freezes?

• A) Man-in-the-middle
• B) Denial of service
• C) Trojan horse
• D) Network sniffing

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Definitions:

Halo Effect

A cognitive bias in which an observer's overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product influences the observer's feelings and thoughts about that entity's character or properties.

Primacy Effect

The tendency for individuals to remember items at the beginning of a list better than items in the middle or at the end.

Matching Effect

A phenomenon where advertisements are more effective when their content is aligned with the mood or the mindset of the audience.

Mere-Exposure Effect

A psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them.