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A DoS attack coming from a large number of IP addresses, making it hard to manually filter or crash the traffic from such sources is known as a _____________

a.

GoS attack

b.

PDoS attack

c.

DoS attack

d.

DDoS attack

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Answer: (d).DDoS attack

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Q. A DoS attack coming from a large number of IP addresses, making it hard to manually filter or crash the traffic from such sources is known as a _____________

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