Jamie Is Head of Security at His Company and Has

question 3

Multiple Choice

Jamie is head of security at his company and has gotten an alert from the monitoring system that the web servers are receiving a sudden spike in traffic from a number of foreign IP addresses. This is causing the website to run very slow or return errors to some users. Which of the following is most likely occurring?

• A) DoS attack
• B) Ping flood
• C) DDoS attack
• D) Smurf attack

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