Case 5-1 Luke is frustrated as he is often criticized by his employer for not meeting deadlines. He decides to take revenge on his employer for criticizing him in front of all his peers.
Luke asks his friends in the organization to flood the network server by sending it unsolicited requests. He does this to avoid being suspected by his employer. This act of sabotage is called _____.
A)war driving
B)data piggybacking
C)a distributed denial of service attack
D)a brick encryption attack

Question

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This act is known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, where multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers, with the intent to overwhelm it with traffic and render it unavailable to users.

Case 5-1 Luke Is Frustrated as He Is Often Criticized