UGC NET CSE | August 2016 | Part 2 | Question: 46

Question

An attacker sits between the sender and receiver and captures the information and retransmits to the receiver after some time without altering the information. This attack is called as _____.

• A. Denial of service attack
• B. Masquarade attack
• C. Simple attack
• D. Complex attack

Answer 1

Simple And Complex Attack-:Heard first time of this type of attack,classification is actually active and passive attack.

Denial of service attack-:Not Giving/allowing Legitimate user to access /use his resources which he is supposed to use.

Masquarade attack-:Using fake identity to gain unauthorized  access.

Given Question is a type of Man in the middle attack.