ISC Exam Questions

Which of the following is unlike the other three?

Which of the following is unlike the other three?

A.
El Gamal

B.
Teardrop

C.
Buffer Overflow

D.
Smurf

Explanation:
Options B, C and D are all Denial of Service attacks. El Gamal is the Diffie-Hellman
key exchange algorithm and is usually described as an active exchange of keys by two parties.
The buffer overflow attack objective is consume the available memory for the TCP/IP protocol
stack to make the machine crash. Teardrop and Smurf are DoS attacks that make use of spoofing.