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Information Security

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many past backups you keep - what you did on your machine etc.






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






3. A technique that allows private IP addresses to be used on the public Internet.






4. How secure the data in your backups is-can use physical security or encryption






5. Below 40% or above 50%






6. The most popular attack toolkit - which has almost half of the attacker toolkit market is ____.






7. Hacker who exposes vulnerabilities for financial gain or malicious purpose.






8. A group of piconets in which connections exist between different piconets is called a ____.






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






10. A threat that originates from outside the company. (ex. power failure.)






11. ____ involves stealing another person's personal information - such as a Social Security number - and then using the information to impersonate the victim - generally for financial gain.






12. The perimeter of a protected - internal network where users - both authorized and unauthorized - from external networks can attempt to access it. Firewalls and IDS/IPS systems are typically placed in the DMZ.






13. A ____ attack is similar to a passive man-in-the-middle attack.






14. A random string of text issued from one computer to another in some forms of authentication. It is used - along with the password (or other credential) - in a response to verify the computer's credentials.






15. These accounts are user accounts that remain active after an employee has left an organization.






16. An authentication service commonly used on UNIX devices that communicates by forwarding user authentication information to a centralized server.






17. The act of driving while running a laptop configured to detect and capture wireless data transmissions.






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






19. The most restrictive access control model is ____.






20. Fingerprints and patterns






21. Email attack that targets only specific users and has familiar information in it - making it more tempting to click the links in the message.






22. Securing a restricted area by erecting a barrier is called ____.






23. Sending high volumes of UDP requests to a target.






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






25. 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






26. A program that is automatically downloaded to your computer without your consent or even your knowledge.






27. Using one's social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other information valuable to the attacker. <dumpster diving - or looking through people's trash - etc>






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






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






30. Broadcast storms can be prevented with ____.






31. Business ____ theft involves stealing proprietary business information such as research for a new drug or a list of customers that competitors are eager to acquire.






32. A list of statements used by a router to permit or deny the forwarding of traffic on a network based on one or more criteria.






33. Wants to cause as much damage as possible - without a particular target or goal.






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






35. Attacker sets up a rogue DNS server that responds to legitimate requests with IP addresses for malicious or non-existent websites.






36. Lock - conduit - card key - video equipment - secured guard






37. Forwards packets across computer networks.






38. 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






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






40. An authentication protocol that operates over PPP and that requires the authenticator to take the first step by offering the other computer a challenge. The requestor responds by combining the challenge with its password - encrypting the new string o






41. Viruses and worms are said to be self-____.






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






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






44. A type of virus that spreads itself - not only from file to file - but also from computer to computer - do not need to attach to anything to spread and can tunnel themselves into computers.






45. ____ is an image spam that is divided into multiple images.






46. The Chinese government uses _____ to prevent Internet content that it considers unfavorable from reaching its citizenry.






47. Typically used on home routers that allow multiple users to share one IP address received from an Internet service provider (ISP).






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






49. A set of permissions that are attached to an object.






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







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