CNET151 Ch 4 - Denial of Service Attacks

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Blocking ICMP packets may help prevent denial of service attacks.

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True

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A Smurf attack is a type of malware attack.

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False

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The ping –l option changes the size of the packet you can send.

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True

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A denial of service attack is one of the most common attacks on the Internet.

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True

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SYN cookies are a form of attack.

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False

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The weakness in any denial of service attack, from the attacker’s point of view, is that the flood of packets must be sustained.

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True

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A teardrop attack involves overloading the login process by continually sending login requests.

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False

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A yo-yo attack occurs when the attacker sends a forged packet with the same source IP address and destination IP address as the target’s IP address. True or False?

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False

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ISPs often use a process called upstream filtering that examines traffic to determine if it is part of a denial of service attack and then blocks suspected traffic.

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True

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A firewall can be configured to disallow certain types of incoming traffic that may be attacking.

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True