Ann is concerned that the application her team is currently developing is vulnerable to unexpected
user input that could lead to issues within the memory is affected in a detrimental manner leading
to potential exploitation. Which of the following describes this application threat?
A.
Replay attack
B.
Zero-day exploit
C.
Distributed denial of service
D.
Buffer overflow
Correct answer is buffer overflow
Wrong Answer C:
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. Such an attack is often the result of multiple compromised systems (for example, a botnet) flooding the targeted system with traffic.