In 2000, Hackers Broke into Hundreds of Servers and Planted

question 13

Multiple Choice

In 2000, hackers broke into hundreds of servers and planted Trojan horse .exe programs, which were then used to launch a barrage of service requests in a concerted attack at e-commerce websites, such as Yahoo! and eBay. This is an example of a distributed ________________ attack.

• A) acceptance of service
• B) denial of service
• C) zombie
• D) Trojan virus

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