Security Basics
What is the most important element related to evidence in addition to the evidence itself?
What is a Chain of custody document?
What attack, if successful, causes a switch to function like a hub?
What is MAC flooding?
What could easily result in a denial of service attack if the victimized system had too little free storage capacity?
What is Spam?
What is subject to SQL injection attacks?
What is Database Servers?
Which security zone can serve as a buffer network between a private secured network and the untrusted internet?
What is DMZ?
Which of the following is an important aspect of evidence gathering?
What is Backing up all log files and audit trails?
When configuring VLANs on a switch, what is used to identify which VLAN a device belongs to?
What is Switch port?
What type of malware monitors your actions?
What is Spyware?
What enters random data to the inputs of an application?
What is Fuzzing?
Which remote access authentication protocol allows for the use of smart cards for authentication?
What is EAP?
Which is the cryptography mechanism that hides secret communications within various forms of data?
What is Steganography?
What common design feature among instant messaging clients make them less secure than other means of communicating over the internet?
What is Peer-to-peer networking?
What does hashing of log files provide?
What is proof that the files have not been altered?
What is the term for the process of validating a subject's identity?
What is Authentication?
What encryption method is used by WPA for wireless networks?
What is TKIP?
Which of the following is an example of privilege escalation?
What is Creeping privileges?
Which protocol should you disable on the user access ports of a switch?
What is DTP?
Which type of malicious activity can be described as numerous unwanted and unsolicited email messages sent to a wide range of victims?
What is Spamming?
What is the single best rule to enforce when designing complex passwords?
What is Longer passwords
What networking devices or services prevents the use of IPSec in most cases?
What is NAT?
Which type of cipher changes the position of the characters in a plain text message?
What is Transposition?
What type of attack is most likely to succeed with communications between instant messaging clients?
What is Sniffing?
What describes Privilege auditing?
Users' and groups' rights and privileges are checked to guard against creeping privileges.
What type of attack is a form of software exploitation that transmits or submits a longer stream of data than the input variable is designed to handle?
What is Buffer overflow?
What is modified in the most common form of spoofing on a typical IP packet?
What is a source address?