Let us consider a scenario where Mr. Amir is a Network Manager of an online institute, and he is responsible for security of the internetwork system of this institute. Once he received complaints from the students at the institute about the unavailability of the server of LMS (Learning management system). Mr. Amir checks the system and finds that the site is being hit with unexpected huge traffic which causes the server to become overloaded with an abnormally high number of requests from different IP addresses.Answer the following questions.(a) What is the name of the cyber-attack which is occurring in the above scenario?(b) Under which categories of cybercrime above crime falls in?
Question
Let us consider a scenario where Mr. Amir is a Network Manager of an online institute, and he is responsible for security of the internetwork system of this institute. Once he received complaints from the students at the institute about the unavailability of the server of LMS (Learning management system). Mr. Amir checks the system and finds that the site is being hit with unexpected huge traffic which causes the server to become overloaded with an abnormally high number of requests from different IP addresses.Answer the following questions.(a) What is the name of the cyber-attack which is occurring in the above scenario?(b) Under which categories of cybercrime above crime falls in?
Solution
(a) The cyber-attack occurring in the above scenario is known as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. This type of attack happens when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers, causing it to become overloaded and unavailable to users.
(b) This type of crime falls under the category of Cyber-attacks or Cyber-terrorism. These are attacks committed against computers and networks with the intent to cause harm or disruption. In this case, the disruption of the Learning Management System (LMS) of the online institute.
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