Question: Denial of Service

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Question: DoS amplification

Answer: The aspect of a DoS attack that makes a server do a lot of processing and responding, such as ‘monlist’.

Question: Jamming

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Question: DDoS attack

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Question: Reflection/reflective DDoS

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Question: Smurf DoS attack

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Question: Unintentional/friendly DoS attack

Answer: A system is brought down unintentionally.

Most common form of a friendly DoS occurs on a super-busy server: an organization’s infrastructure isn’t strong enough to keep up with legitimate demand.

This ‘hug of death’ goes by other names such as Slashdotting or the Reddit effect.

Question: Permanent DoS

Answer: An attack that damages the targeted machine—router, server, and so on—and renders that machine inoperable.

E.g. an attacker gains control over the management interface of a router, and makes malicious changes to brick that router.

PDoS attacks are also referred to as phlashing attacks.

Question: Man-in-the-Middle attack

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Question: Brute force

Answer: Method where a threat agent guesses every permutation of some part of data. Usually refers to an attempt to crack a password.

You can also brute force a search for open ports, network IDs, user names, and so on.