An attack that takes advantage of the procedures for initiating a session is known as what type of attack?
A)DNS amplification attack
B)IP spoofing
C)smurf attack
D)SYN flood attack

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A SYN flood attack takes advantage of the three-way handshake process for initiating a session to overwhelm a target system with a flood of connection requests, thereby denying legitimate requests from being serviced. Option A refers to a type of DDoS attack that abuses the DNS protocol, Option B involves forging the source IP address of a packet to hide the identity of the attacker or impersonate another system, and Option C is a DDoS attack that involves sending a large number of broadcast ICMP echo requests to IP networks.

An Attack That Takes Advantage of the Procedures for Initiating