A computer forensics investigator is inspecting the firewall logs for a large financial institution that has employees working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What can the investigator infer from the screenshot seen below?
B. A denial of service has been attempted
A. Smurf attack: Incorrect – Would show spoofed packets with broadcast IPs, not in logs.
B. Denial of service: Correct – Repeated high-frequency traffic overloads the system, as shown.
C. Network intrusion: Incorrect – No evidence of successful unauthorized access.
D. Buffer overflow attempt: Incorrect – Not indicated in these network logs.
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