Farouk has an app that lets him see real-time traffic on his online st

QUESTION

Farouk has an app that lets him see real-time traffic on his online store’s website. He is pleasantly surprised to see a sudden surge in activity, but it continues to grow. The servers become overloaded and the site crashes.

Farouk suspects this is the work of Jon, a fired employee. What did Jon produce?
A) a worm
B) a Trojan horse
C) a denial-of-service attack
D) a spam blast
E) a phishing expedition

ANSWER

Answer: C
Explanation: C) A denial-of-service (DoS) attack consists of making repeated requests of a computer system or network, thereby overloading it and denying legitimate users access to it.