Security+ Question of the Week: DoS Tool

securityQOW01You have become aware of a DoS tool that targets your public Web site which is co?located at an ISP rather than in a DMZ off of your intranet. This DoS tool is present on numerous systems across the Internet, but it has also been discovered on a few intranet clients as well. After analyzing traffic captures, you discover that the DoS tool spoofs its source address in the 10.233.43.10?50 range. Why is your Web server not being affected by this DoS traffic?

A. Ingress filtering
B. Malware scanner on e?mail servers
C. Private IP addresses are being filtered
D. Web server patches

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