A company's website suddenly experiences an inordinate amount of traffic, causing it to respond exceedingly slowly or go offline entirely. What type of attack is most likely occurring?
ARP poisoning
Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack
Rogue AP
MAC flooding
A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is intended to make a server or network resource unavailable to users, typically by overwhelming it with excessive requests until it can no longer respond effectively. The sudden spike in traffic and degradation of service mentioned in the scenario is characteristic of a DoS attack. ARP poisoning is a threat that affects data integrity by redirecting network traffic to an attacker, which is different from overwhelming a service with traffic. MAC flooding aims to saturate a switch's MAC address table, forcing it to broadcast traffic to all ports, which is a different mechanism and goal than the one described. A Rogue AP is an unauthorized access point that provides a vector for various other attacks but does not in itself cause a massive flood of traffic to a specific web server.
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