CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor – Question1487

Which of the following results in a denial-of-service attack?

A.
Brute force attack
B. Ping of death
C. Leapfrog attack
D. Negative acknowledgement (NAK) attack

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
The use of Ping with a packet size higher than 65 KB and no fragmentation flag on will cause a denial of service. A brute force attack is typically a text attack that exhausts all possible key combinations. A leapfrog attack, the act of tenting through one or more hosts to preclude a trace, makes use of user ID and password information obtained illicitly from one host to compromise another host. A negative acknowledgement attack is a penetration technique that capitalizes on a potential weakness in an operating system that does not handle asynchronous interrupts properly, leaving the system in an unprotected state during such interrupts.