{"id":6418,"date":"2022-12-01T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/?post_type=mcq&#038;p=6418"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:26:17","slug":"the-it-department-is-reporting-that-a-company-from-different-locations-simultaneously-which-type-of-security-attack-is-occurring","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/the-it-department-is-reporting-that-a-company-from-different-locations-simultaneously-which-type-of-security-attack-is-occurring\/","title":{"rendered":"The IT department is reporting that a company &#8230; from different locations simultaneously. Which type of security attack is occurring?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The IT department is reporting that a company web server is receiving an abnormally high number of web page requests from different locations simultaneously. Which type of security attack is occurring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[955],"subject":[954],"class_list":["post-6418","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-introduction-to-computer-studies","subject-information-technology-essentials"],"mcq_note":"<strong>Explanation:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nPhishing, spyware, and social engineering are security attacks that collect network and user information. Adware consists, typically, of annoying popup windows. Unlike a DDoS attack, none of these attacks generate large amounts of data traffic that can restrict access to network services.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"adware"},{"right":"yes","answer":"DDoS"},{"right":"no","answer":"phishing"},{"right":"no","answer":"social engineering"},{"right":"no","answer":"spyware"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":954,"title":"Information Technology Essentials (ITE)","slug":"information-technology-essentials"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":955,"title":"Introduction to Computer Studies","slug":"introduction-to-computer-studies"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/6418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}