Which of the following usually happens in a malicious denial-of-service attack?
A) A hacker monitors and intercepts wireless traffic at will.
B) A hacker floods a Web server with many millions of bogus service requests.
C) An intruder uses another site's IP address to masquerade as that other site.
D) A phisher pretends to be a legitimate company and requests confidential data.
E) A hacker identifies vulnerabilities in network hosts.

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In a malicious denial-of-service attack, the attacker floods the target server with many millions of bogus service requests, thereby causing the server to become overwhelmed and unavailable to legitimate users. Other options (A, C, D, E) describe different types of attacks.

Which of the Following Usually Happens in a Malicious Denial-Of-Service