Multiple choice technology security

This attack significantly degrades service quality experienced by legitimate users. It introduces large response delays, excessive losses, and service interruptions, resulting in direct impact on availability.

  1. Eavesdropping attack

  2. Path traversal attack

  3. URL Tampering attack

  4. Denial Of Service attack
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Explanation

A Denial of Service (DoS) attack aims to make a service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic or exploiting vulnerabilities, causing delays, losses, and interruptions. This directly impacts availability as described. Eavesdropping, path traversal, and URL tampering focus on data theft or unauthorized access rather than service degradation.

AI explanation

A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is specifically designed to degrade or deny service availability to legitimate users — by flooding a target with traffic or exhausting its resources, it causes large response delays, dropped requests/excessive losses, and outright service interruptions. That directly matches the description given. Eavesdropping attacks are passive information-gathering (sniffing traffic) and don't inherently degrade availability. Path traversal attacks exploit file-path handling to access unauthorized files/directories — a confidentiality/integrity issue, not primarily an availability one. URL tampering manipulates URL parameters to gain unauthorized access or alter behavior, again not primarily about causing delays/service loss. Only DoS is defined by its impact on availability as described.

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