Question
This term describes scientific projects like SETI@home (“SET-ee at home”) that employ volunteers to contribute computing hours. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this term that describes systems of distinct, networked computers that operate as a single computer.
ANSWER: distributed [accept distributed computing or distributed systems]
[10e] A common type of cyber-attack is the distributed denial of this thing, in which a system is rendered unavailable to users by flooding it with bogus requests from a network of computers.
ANSWER: service [accept distributed denial-of-service attacks; prompt on DDoS attacks]
[10h] DoS attacks may involve spoofing messages from this protocol onto a LAN, causing users’ machines to recognize an attacker as a network host. This protocol’s “reply” contains a MAC address for a requested IP.
ANSWER: ARP [or Address Resolution Protocol; accept ARP spoofing]
<David Bass, Science - Computer Science> ~21430~ <Editor: David Bass>
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