A computer system is no more secure than the human systems responsible for its operation. Malicious
individuals have regularly penetrated well-designed, secure computer systems by taking advantage of the
carelessness of trusted individuals, or by deliberately deceiving them.
zombie computers are being HEAVILY relied upon on by which of the following types of attack?
A.
Eavedropping
B.
DoS
C.
DDoS
D.
ATP
E.
Social Engineering
F.
None of the choices.
Explanation:
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are common, where a large number of compromised hosts
(“”zombie computers””) are used to flood a target system with network requests, thus attempting to render it
unusable through resource exhaustion.