Multiple choice

Which of the following is false about denial-of-service (DDoS) attack?

  1. This attack can be spread in a multitude of systems.

  2. It denies service to the system to legitimate users.

  3. It can exploit a vulnerability in one computer system and makes it the DDoS master.

  4. A network-centric attack overloads a service by using up bandwidth and an application-layer attack, which overloads a service or database with application calls.

  5. It gains malicious access to resources, applications or databases.
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E Correct answer
Explanation

SQL injection attack gains malicious access to resources, applications or databases. DDoS attack does not exploit database.

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