Denial of Service (DoS) is an attack on a computer or network that prevents legitimate use of its resources. In a DoS attack, attackers flood a victim system with non-legitimate service requests or traffic to overload its resources, which prevents it from performing intended tasks.

Which of the following is a symptom of a DoS attack?

Unavailability of a particular website

Decrease in the amount of spam emails received

Automatic increase in network bandwidth

Automatic increase in network performance

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Computers and Technology

Taylor Conley

9 August, 10:26

Denial of Service (DoS) is an attack on a computer or network that prevents legitimate use of its resources. In a DoS attack, attackers flood a victim system with non-legitimate service requests or traffic to overload its resources, which prevents it from performing intended tasks.

Which of the following is a symptom of a DoS attack?

Unavailability of a particular website

Decrease in the amount of spam emails received

Automatic increase in network bandwidth

Automatic increase in network performance

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Hezekiah Crawford · Answer 1

Answer: Unavailability of a particular website

Explanation:

As the website is under denial of Service attack and all of its server are overloaded so that particular website would not be available to its client.