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Information Security

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Altering the contents of packets as they travel over the Internet or altering data on computer disks after penetrating a network. For example - an attacker might place a tap on a network line to intercept packets as they leave the computer. The attac






2. A framework for transporting authentication protocols instead of the authentication protocol itself.






3. ____ is a software program that delivers advertising content in a manner that is unexpected and unwanted by the user.






4. ____ can be prewired for electrical power as well as wired network connections.






5. A database - organized as a hierarchy or tree - of the name of each site on the Internet and its corresponding IP number.






6. This attack is where every possible combination of letters - numbers - and characters is used to create encrypted passwords.






7. A security attack in which an internet user sends commands to another internet user's machine that cause the screen to fill with garbage characters. A flashing attack causes the user to terminate her session.






8. Hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network






9. Terms that can refer to the online enticement of children; rude or threatening messages; slanderous information; or repeated - unwanted messages






10. Sifting through a company's garbage to find information to help break into their computers






11. Fingerprints and patterns






12. Due to the limitations of online guessing - most password attacks today use ____.






13. Has limited technical knowledge and is motivated by a desire to gain and display technical skills.






14. Scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information






15. Windows Live ID was originally designed as a ____ system that would be used by a wide variety of Web servers.






16. A user accessing a computer system must present credentials or ____ when logging on to the system.






17. If a password is communicated across a network to log on to a remote system - it is vulnerable to ______.






18. A firewall that can block designated types of traffic from entering a protected network.






19. The process of giving someone permission to do or have something






20. Using a single authentication credential that is shared across multiple networks.






21. Can be accidental or intentional - internal or external. (ex. back-hoe operator performing legitimate construction cuts cables leading into a facility.)






22. Web application attacks are considered ____ attacks.






23. The protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization






24. An attack that accesses unauthorized information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection - often between cell phones and laptop computers.






25. A system of security tools that is used to recognize and identify data that is critical to the organization and ensure that it is protected.






26. ____ is an attack in which an attacker attempts to impersonate the user by using his session token.






27. Password and BioMetric






28. Forging of the return address on an e-mail so that the e-mail message appears to come from someone other than the actual sender. This is not a virus but rather a way by which virus authors conceal their identities as they send out viruses.






29. A ____ virus is loaded into random access memory (RAM) each time the computer is turned on and infects files that are opened by the user or the operating system.






30. A firewall capable only of examining packets individually. Stateless firewalls perform more quickly than stateful firewalls - but are not as sophisticated.






31. In a ____ attack - attackers can attackers use hundreds or thousands of computers in an attack against a single computer or network.






32. A device that is around the same size as a credit card - containing embedded technologies that can store information and small amounts of software to perform some limited processing






33. Four interrelated aspects to _________:Access - data - infrastructure - computers






34. A method for confirming users' identities






35. A user or a process functioning on behalf of the user that attempts to access an object is known as the ____.






36. How many past backups you keep - what you did on your machine etc.






37. A feature that controls a device's tolerance for unanswered service requests and helps to prevent a DoS attack.






38. These attacks may allow an attacker to construct LDAP statements based on user input statements.






39. A program or device that can monitor data traveling over a network. Sniffers can show - all the data being transmitted over a network - including passwords and sensitive information - tends to be a favorite weapon in the hacker's arsenal






40. Can create entries in a log for all queries that are received.






41. A security analysis of the transaction within its approved context.






42. Magnetic tape drives - hard drives - optical media (CD or DVD) - solid-state media (flash drives or SD)






43. A pay-per-use computing model in which customers pay only for the computing resources they need.






44. A hacker who exposes security flaws in applications and operating systems so manufacturers can fix them before they become widespread problems.






45. Software that searches a server - switch - router - or other device for open ports - which can be vulnerable to attack.






46. Set of rules that allow or deny traffic






47. In the context of SSL encryption - a message issued from the client to the server that contains information about what level of security the client's browser is capable of accepting and what type of encryption the client's browser can decipher (for e






48. Suitable for what are called "high-volume service control applications" such as dial-in access to a corporate network.






49. Permits users to share resources stored on one site with a second site without forwarding their authentication credentials to the other site.






50. A ____ encrypts all data that is transmitted between the remote device and the network.







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