Hacking & Attacks
This fraudulent message attempts to trick users into revealing sensitive information.
What is phishing?
This protocol translates domain names such as flpoly.edu into IP addresses.
What is DNS (Domain Name System)?
This security factor requires something you know, have, or are.
What is authentication?
This command lists files.
What is ls?
The SOC stand for this.
What is Security Operations Center?
This malware encrypts a victim's files and demands payment to restore access.
What is ransomware?
This secure protocol commonly uses TCP port 443 for web traffic.
What is HTTPS?
This process transforms readable data into ciphertext that can be recovered with the appropriate key.
What is encryption?
This command shows your current directory.
What is pwd?
You should do this if you click on a phishing email.
What is report it?
This attack injects malicious database commands through improperly handled user input.
What is SQL injection?
This network security device filters traffic according to rules and policies.
What is a firewall?
Unlike encryption, this one-way process produces a fixed-length digest commonly used to verify data integrity.
What is hashing?
This command searches text for a pattern.
What is grep?
Repeated failed logins indicate this.
What is a brute-force attack?
In this attack, a criminal secretly intercepts communications between two parties.
What is a man-in-the-middle attack?
This protocol securely provides remote command-line access and commonly uses TCP port 22.
What is SSH?
This password-storage technique combines a unique random value with a password before hashing it.
What is salting?
This is what chmod changes.
What are file permissions?
To contain an infected computer you do this.
What is isolate it from the network?
An attacker exploits a flaw to gain permissions beyond those originally granted to their account.
What is privilege escalation?
This attack floods a target with traffic from many compromised devices, overwhelming its resources.
What is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack?
This cryptographic attack attempts many possible passwords or keys until the correct one is found.
What is a brute-force attack?
This is what the SUID bit allows.
What is running a file with the owner's privileges?
These records help trace a cyberattack.
What are system and network logs?