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Comptia Security +: Vocab

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1. A person able to exploit a system or gain unauthorized access through skill and tactics. This usually refers to a black hat hacker. There are also white hats (ethical hackers) - and grey hats.






2. In a computer system (or cryptosystem or algorithm) these are methods of bypassing normal authentication or securing remote access to a computer - while attempting to remain hidden from casual inspection.






3. A computer program (or set of programs) that translates text written in a computer language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language).






4. These can be used to verify that public keys belong to certain individuals.






5. Relating to quality or kind. This assigns a level of importance to something.






6. The effort made by an ordinarily prudent or reasonable party to avoid harm to another party or himself. Deals with liability.






7. The process of developing a planned approach to change in an organization. Typically the objective is to maximize the collective benefits for all people involved in the change and minimize the risk of failure of implementing the change.






8. The attacker sends a SYN request to the victims machine and the victim machine allocates resources for that request and sends a SYN/ACK back. The attacking machine doesn't respond however - but instead sends another SYN and continues to do so until t






9. The process of training end users / employees in the ways and processes of security. This helps to mitigate risk to the company (if the employees know what to do) and also helps the employees to know what is expected of them security-wise - so that t






10. A unit that will detect motion for the purpose of setting of the alarms to alert for unauthorized access.






11. Affects the section of a floppy or hard disk that contains operating system and file information. Each time you start your PC with an infected floppy in the drive - the virus can spread.






12. a.k.a. The Chinese wall. Nash Bridges - Bridge wall - Chinese wall. Dynamically changes access control to prevent unauthorized access.






13. Communications that don't take the natural course of email (when you don't want eavesdropping to happen)






14. A simple authentication protocol used to authenticate a user to a remote access server or Internet service provider (ISP). Almost all NOS remote servers support PAP. PAP transmits unencrypted ASCII passwords over the network and is therefore consider






15. RFC 1918 defined the following addresses as the private addressing ranges: 192.168.x.x - 10.x.x.x - 172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x






16. When an employee leaves the company - you want to make them aware of non-disclosures and non compete clauses - etc.






17. Object Linking and Embedding. The ability of an object to be embedded into another object.






18. Someone who hacks using programs that they can download from the Internet. This person usually doesn't find new exploits - but simply exploits vulnerabilities that others have found.






19. Enticing people to hit your honeypot to see how they try to access your system.






20. Technical are IT implemented. Administrative items are things that HR implements. Physical things are things that are tangible.






21. A meme and a joke are the same thing. e.g. When someone says to delete a file that is really just fine and they call it a virus






22. Virtual memory is an area of 'memory' that is not in physical memory (RAM) but on the disk system to allow for extra 'memory' processing area above what is available through RAM. This is the pagefile.sys file on a Windows system. Many Windows OSs req






23. In a distributed attack - the attacking computer hosts are often zombie computers with broadband connections to the Internet that have been compromised by viruses or Trojan horse programs that allow the perpetrator to remotely control the machine and






24. Personal - Network - and Application






25. Virtual LANs. Separating broadcast domains on a single network. A way of partitioning communications channels.






26. Testing a company's network to test for vulnerabilities in their systems so that weaknesses can be fixed. This testing does not actually fix anything.






27. A type of virus that changes its telltale code segments so that it ' looks' different from one infected file to another - thus making detection more difficult.






28. Base 64 is a positional numeral system using a base of 64. It is the largest power of two base that can be represented using only printable ASCII characters. This has led to its use as a transfer encoding for e-mail among other things.






29. A set of exclusive rights granted by governments to regulate the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. Artists ability to control their work






30. A distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to uniquely identify itself and its products and services to consumers - and to distinguish the business and its products and / or services from those of other businesses.






31. In computing - Secure Shell or SSH is a set of standards and an associated network protocol that allows establishing a secure channel between a local and a remote computer. It uses public-key cryptography to authenticate the remote computer and (opti






32. Emanations from one wire coupling with another wire






33. Repeats the signal. It amplifies the signal before sending it on.






34. In classical cryptography - a transposition cipher changes one character from the plaintext to another (to decrypt the reverse is done). That is - the order of the characters is changed. Mathematically a bijective function is used on the characters'






35. In computer networking - this is the method for finding a host's hardware address when only its IP address is known. Due to the overwhelming prevalence of IPv4 and ethernet - ARP is primarily used to translate ethernet MAC addresses from IP addresses






36. Chief Information Officer






37. Deals with the same things as due diligence except that they deal with accepting responsibility instead of liability.






38. A network that uses standard protocols (TCP/IP)






39. A military standard defining controls for emanation protection






40. The EU spec. If databases exist - users are allowed to check data into them - allowed to change them if wrong - etc.






41. Reasonable doubt






42. A type of hash function used to produce a checksum - which is a small - fixed number of bits - against a block of data. This is used to detect errors after transmission or storage.






43. When you know something from a source - and can infer other related information based off of what you know - when you may not necessarily have access to that data normally.






44. The process of certifying a system that has been built to ensure that it meets the security standards that you have said you will use.






45. A spoofing attack - a kind of attack in data communication - in which a third party tries to mislead the communication participants using forged information.






46. This is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communications.






47. 1 - 1024 are the ports registered to Internet applications. Ones on the test include: 20 - ftp 21 - ftp 22 - ssh 23 - telnet 25 - smtp 53 - dns 69 - tftp 80 - http 161 - snmp 443 - ssl






48. Component Object Model.






49. The study of automated methods for uniquely recognizing humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. In information technology - biometric authentication refers to technologies that measure and analyze human physical and beh






50. Good for distance - longer than 100M