ECSA v10: EC-Council Certified Security Analyst v10Demo

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QuestionQ21

Cloud Penetration Testing Methodology

A hacker sends so many invalid requests to a cloud network host that the host consumes all its resources responding to them and disregards legitimate requests.

Identify the attack type —

  • A Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
  • B Side Channel attacks
  • C Man-in-the-middle cryptographic attacks
  • D Authentication attacks
Explanation

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack exhausts a target host’s available resources by overwhelming it with requests or traffic, making the host unable to process legitimate requests.

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