Residents cannot reach the tax-assessor site, and netflow shows a flood of SYN packets from many sources. What attack is occurring?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
The assessor site is drowning, and the SYN flood is coming from a crowd, not one angry neighbor. Many sources plus a flood is DDoS. Defacement would change the page; a single IP would be ordinary DoS.
Full Explanation
A SYN flood from many distinct sources that makes a civic site unreachable is a distributed denial of service. A single-source flood would be DoS, defacement would alter content rather than exhaust capacity, and mailbox takeover would show identity and mail artifacts. Netflow evidence of many-source SYN traffic is the discriminator.