An attack on a website in which an attacker uses specialized software to send a flood of data packets to the target computer with the aim of overloading its resources best describes
A) cyberraid.
B) denial-of-service attack.
C) cyberhijacking.
D) botnet infestation.

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A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is precisely an attack in which an attacker uses specialized software to flood the target computer with a flood of data packets, aiming to overload its resources and ultimately bringing it down.

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