Jiao Jan Had Been the Web Master for Folding Squid

question 21

Multiple Choice

Jiao Jan had been the Web master for Folding Squid Technologies for only three months when he received an anonymous email that threatened to inundate the company Web site with access attempts unless a payment was wired to an account in Eastern Europe.Jiao was concerned that FST would suffer significant losses if the threat was genuine.The author of the email was engaged in

• A) a denial-of-service attack.
• B) Internet terrorism.
• C) hacking.
• D) cyber-extortion.

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