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Information Security
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it-skills
Instructions:
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
Black Hat
Cyberstalking/Harassment
Rule Based Access Control
Packet tampering
2. A ____ means that the application or service assigned to that port is listening for any instructions.
Open Port
Three-Way Handshake
Geometric variance
Cyberterrorist
3. Email attack that targets only specific users and has familiar information in it - making it more tempting to click the links in the message.
Spear Phishing
Orphaned
What is asymmetic encryption?
Hacker
4. An attack that targets a computer's physical components and peripherals. (ie. hard disk - motherboard - cabling - etc.)
Whaling
DAP
Insiders
Hardware Attack
5. A technique that allows private IP addresses to be used on the public Internet.
NAT
Proximity reader
Fencing
Eavesdropping Attack
6. A ____ encrypts all data that is transmitted between the remote device and the network.
Bluejacking
Physical security access control measures
Rainbow Tables
VPN
7. Could become a key element in authentication in the future.
Cognitive biometrics
Script Kiddie
BioMetric devices
Wireless security
8. ____ 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.
Rule Based Access Control
Distributed
Identity Theft
DAC
9. Tools used to configure ________: WEP - WPA - MAC address filtering - SSID broadcasting - wireless antennae
Server-Side
Buffer Overflow
Wireless security
Trojan-horse virus
10. 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
Firewall logs
Sniffer
Amart card
Adware
11. ____ uses "speckling" and different colors so that no two spam e-mails appear to be the same.
Evil Twin
Cloud computing
Geometric variance
Router
12. A variety of threats such as viruses - worms - and Trojan horses
Malicious code
Protocol analyzer
Black Hat
Tailgate sensors
13. An operating system that has been reengineered so that it is designed to be secure from the ground up is known as a ____.
Human memory
Trusted OS
Extreme Humidity
DNS Log
14. A person who uses his knowledge of operating systems and utilities to intentionally damage or destroy data or systems.
Replay
Phishing
Stateful Firewall
Cracker
15. How secure the data in your backups is-can use physical security or encryption
Security
Bluesnarfing
Router
Trojan-horse virus
16. The X.500 standard defines a protocol for a client application to access an X.500 directory called ____.
Access Control
DNS
DAP
Server-Side
17. The protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization
Bluesnarfing
Vishing
Information security
UDP Flood
18. A database - organized as a hierarchy or tree - of the name of each site on the Internet and its corresponding IP number.
What is asymmetic encryption?
Root
Web security gateway
DNS
19. Attacker sets up a rogue DNS server that responds to legitimate requests with IP addresses for malicious or non-existent websites.
Human memory
CardSpace
Buffer Overflow
DNS Hijacking
20. Pretending to be another person.
Impersonation
What is asymmetic encryption?
Data
Cloud computing
21. These access points are serious threats to network security because they allow attackers to intercept the RF signal and bypass network security to attack the network or capture sensitive data.
Social engineering
Password
External Threat
Rogue
22. Sending high volumes of UDP requests to a target.
Authentication
Replicating
UDP Flood
Zone transfer
23. A commonly used technique by pornography sites where a user gets "locked" in a web site.
LEAP
Natural Threat
Honeynet
Mouse Trapping
24. When a device receives a beacon frame from an AP - the device then sends a frame known as a ____ frame to the AP.
Role Based Access Control
Hardware Attack
Wireless security
Association request
25. Ensures that messages are not corrupt or tampered with
Media for backups
Hash encoding
70
Fencing
26. Sending extremely critcal - derogatory - and oftern vulgar email messages or newsgroup postings to other user on the internet or online services
Content inspection
Tailgate sensors
Flaming
DAC
27. Web application attacks are considered ____ attacks.
Protocol analyzer
MPack
Server-Side
Buffer Overflow
28. Allows a single access point to service different types of users.
Wireless VLANs
War Driving
Flaming
Natural Threat
29. 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.
Resident
Packet filtering
DMS (Demilitarized Zone)
Firewalls
30. 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.
Spoofing
ACL (Access Control List)
Roller barrier
Trusted OS
31. Using a single authentication credential that is shared across multiple networks.
What is asymmetic encryption?
Information security
70
Identity management
32. Although brute force and dictionary attacks were once the primary tools used by attackers to crack an encrypted password - today attackers usually prefer ____.
Cloud computing
Blacklisting Software
Rainbow Tables
Symmetric encryption
33. Peering over the shoulder of someone to see the contents on that person's computer or cell phone screen.
Shoulder Surfing
Reverse proxy
Rule Based Access Control
Eavesdropping Attack
34. Scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information
Encryption
Adware
Content inspection
Internal Threat
35. The weakness of passwords centers on ____.
Client_Hello
Bluesnarfing
Human memory
Loop Protection
36. Below 70 degrees or above 75 degrees
Token
Script Kiddie
Firewalls
Extreme temperatures
37. ____ is an attack in which an attacker attempts to impersonate the user by using his session token.
What is asymmetic encryption?
Macro
Session hijacking
Content-Filtering Firewall
38. An attack that sends unsolicited messages to Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Logic Bomb
Bluejacking
Challenge
PAT
39. A pay-per-use computing model in which customers pay only for the computing resources they need.
Cloud computing
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
Wireless VLANs
Man-made Threat
40. Using video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific and limited set of receivers is called ____.
Role
CCTV
Dumpster Diving
Hardware Attack
41. Hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network
Extreme Humidity
Firewalls
OAuth
Web security gateway
42. 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.
Authentication request
Hacker
ACL (Access Control List)
Trojan-horse virus
43. An attack that accesses unauthorized information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection - often between cell phones and laptop computers.
Mantrap
Fake Antivirus
Bluesnarfing
VPN
44. Hacker who exposes vulnerabilities for financial gain or malicious purpose.
Data
Reverse proxy
Black Hat
Character
45. A password-protected and encrypted file that holds an individual's identification information - including a public key and a private key. The individual's public key is used to verify the sender's digital signature - and the private key allows the in
What is asymmetic encryption?
Digital Certificate
Social engineering
Malicious code
46. 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
Client_Hello
Geometric variance
Man-made Threat
Wireless VLANs
47. ____ is a software program that delivers advertising content in a manner that is unexpected and unwanted by the user.
Denial of service attack
Bluejacking
Adware
Content-Filtering Firewall
48. If a password is communicated across a network to log on to a remote system - it is vulnerable to ______.
Electronic eavesdropping
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
Access Control
Bluejacking
49. Use multiple infrared beams that are aimed across a doorway and positioned so that as a person walks through the doorway some beams are activated.
Cyber Theft
Fake Antivirus
Tailgating
Tailgate sensors
50. An attack that accesses unauthorized information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection - often between cell phones and laptop computers.
Macro
Bluesnarfing
Offline cracking
DNS poisoning