Denial-of-service attacks are common tactics used by hackers to affect theservice capabilities of companies’ computer systems. Often times, they are broughtforward by competing companies. Which attack below would not be considered a DoS attack?

A.
Ping of Death

B.
Smurf

C.
SYN flooding

D.
Man-in-the-middle

Explanation:
Ping of death is a DoS because it sends an excessive amount of oversized ICMP packets to a victim. A smurf attack uses an amplifying network to send an excessiveamount of ICMP Echo Reply packets to a victim. And a SYN flood continually sends SYN packets. Each has the goal of overwhelming a victim. A man-in-the-middle attack is carried out to gain unauthorized access to messages between two victims.