When a Hacker Floods a Web Server with Millions of Bogus

question 11

True/False

When a hacker floods a web server with millions of bogus service requests so that it cannot service legitimate requests, this is called a denial-of-service attack.

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Definitions:

Restriction Enzymes

Proteins used in molecular biology that cut DNA at specific recognition nucleotide sequences, important in genetic engineering.

Bacteriophage Infections

Refers to the invasion and proliferation of bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria, often leading to the lysis (destruction) of the bacteria cell.

Foreign RNA

RNA that originates from a source other than the host organism, often referring to viral RNA or artificially introduced RNA.

Reverse Transcriptase

An enzyme used by some viruses to synthesize DNA from an RNA template, a critical component of the replication process of retroviruses.