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What is the technique that Eve used in the case above?

Eve decides to get her hands dirty and tries out a Denial of Service attack that is relatively new to her. This time she envisages using a different kind of method to attack Brownies Inc. Eve tries to forge the packets and uses the broadcast address. She launches an attack similar to that of “fraggle”. What is the technique that Eve used in the case above?

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A.
Ping of Death

B.
Smurf

C.
SYN Flood

D.
Bubonic

Explanation:
A fraggle attack is a variation of the smurf attack for denial of service in which the attacker sends spoofed UDP packets instead of ICMP echo reply (ping) packets to the broadcast address of a large network.

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