Question: Considering the following attacks and match each attack with its appropriate category and whether it is considered as being active or passive attacks. A. Replay

Considering the following attacks and match each attack with its appropriate category and whether it is considered as being active or passive attacks.

A.

Replay passive attack

B.

DoS active attack

C.

Release of message content (Active attack)

D.

Masquerade active attack

E.

Release of message content (Passive attack)

F Replay active attack

1. Ping of Death (PoD): in this attack the sender would send malformed or otherwise corrupted malicious ping to the host machine aiming to cause buffer overflow on the system that lead to a system crash.

2. IP Address spoofing: here the attacker will create IP packets with forged source IP address to impersonate legitimate system.

3. Packet sniffing: here the attacker aims to capture the data packets traveling in the network

4. This attack involves the passive capture of a data unit and its subsequent retransmission to produce an unauthorized effect

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