Question

When an attempt is to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users, the attack is called _____________

(a) denial-of-service attack

(b) slow read attack

(c) spoofed attack

(d) starvation attack

This question was addressed to me during a job interview.

Query is from Security topic in section Protection of Operating System

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) denial-of-service attack

Easy explanation - None.