Certified Ethical Hacker v11 312-50v11 – Question187

A DDoS attack is performed at layer 7 to take down web infrastructure. Partial HTTP requests are sent to the web infrastructure or applications. Upon receiving a partial request, the target servers opens multiple connections and keeps waiting for the requests to complete.
Which attack is being described here?

A.
Desynchronization
B. Slowloris attack
C. Session splicing
D. Phlashing

Correct Answer: B