266. What floods a Web site with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes?

A) Computer virus
B) Worm
C) Denial‐of‐service attack
D) None of the above
✅ ANSWER: C
Denial‐of‐service attack floods a Web site with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes. A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a type of cyber attack in which a malicious actor aims to render a computer or other device unavailable to its intended users by interrupting the device’s normal functioning.

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