{"id":868,"date":"2021-01-17T05:41:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp-question0860\/"},"modified":"2021-01-17T05:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T05:44:46","slug":"systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp-question0860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp-question0860\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems Security Certified Practitioner &#8211; SSCP &#8211; Question0860"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">What is called an attack where the attacker spoofs the source IP address in an ICMP ECHO broadcast packet so it seems to have originated at the victim&#039;s system, in order to flood it with REPLY packets? <br \/><strong><br \/>A.<\/strong> SYN Flood attack <br \/><strong>B.<\/strong> Smurf attack <br \/><strong>C.<\/strong> Ping of Death attack <br \/><strong>D.<\/strong> Denial of Service (DOS) attack<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<style> .hidden-div{ display:none } <\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'block'\"> Show Answer <\/button> <button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'none'\">Hide Answer<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden-div\" id=\"hidden-div\"><span style=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">Correct Answer: <strong>B<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"explanation\">\nAlthough it may cause a denial of service to the victim&#8217;s system, this type of attack is a Smurf attack. A SYN Flood attack uses up all of a system&#8217;s resources by setting up a number of bogus communication sockets on the victim&#8217;s system. A Ping of Death attack is done by sending IP packets that exceed the maximum legal length (65535 octets). Source: HARRIS, Shon, All-In-One CISSP Certification Exam Guide, McGraw-Hill\/Osborne, 2002, chapter 11: Application and System Development (page 789).<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is called an attack where the attacker spoofs the source IP address in an ICMP ECHO broadcast packet so it seems to have originated at the victim&#039;s system, in order to flood it with REPLY packets? A. SYN Flood attack B. Smurf attack C. Ping of Death attack D. Denial of Service (DOS) attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1078,863,3],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp","tag-choices","tag-question-0860","tag-systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}