What is the essential difference between an ‘Ethical Hacker’ and a ‘Cracker’?
Doug is conducting a port scan of a target network. He knows that his client target network has a web server and that there is a mail server also which is up and running. Doug has been sweeping the network but has not been able to elicit any response from the remote target. Which of the following could be the most likely cause behind this lack of response? Select 4.
While attempting to discover the remote operating system on the target computer, you receive the following results from an nmap scan:
Remote operating system guess: Too many signatures match to reliably guess the OS.
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 277.483 seconds
What should be your next step to identify the OS?
What two things will happen if a router receives an ICMP packet, which has a TTL value of 1, and the destination host is several hops away? (Select 2 answers)
John is using a special tool on his Linux platform that has a signature database and is therefore able to detect hundred of vulnerabilities in UNIX, Windows, and commonly-used web CGI scripts. Additionally, the database detects DDoS zombies and Trojans. What would be the name of this multifunctional tool?
While footprinting a network, what port/service should you look for to attempt a zone transfer?
One of your team members has asked you to analyze the following SOA record. What is the version?
Rutgers.edu.SOA NS1.Rutgers.edu ipad.college.edu (200302028 3600
3600 604800 2400.
While performing ping scans into a target network you get a frantic call from the organization’s security team. They report that they are under a denial of service attack. When you stop your scan, the smurf attack event stops showing up on the organization’s IDS monitor. How can you modify your scan to prevent triggering this event in the IDS?
A person approaches a network administrator and wants advice on how to send encrypted email from home. The end user does not want to have to pay for any license fees or manage server services. Which of the following is the most secure encryption protocol that the network administrator should recommend?
Which of the following ICMP message types are used for destinations unreachables?
You are scanning into the target network for the first time. You find very few conventional ports open. When you attempt to perform traditional service identification by connecting to the open ports, it yields either unreliable or no results. You are unsure of which protocols are being used. You need to discover as many different protocols as possible.
Which kind of scan would you use to achieve this? (Choose the best answer)
Bob has been hired to perform a penetration test on XYZ.com. He begins by looking at IP address ranges owned by the company and details of domain name registration. He then goes to News Groups and financial web sites to see if they are leaking any sensitive information of have any technical details online.
Within the context of penetration testing methodology, what phase is Bob involved with?
Where should a security tester be looking for information that could be used by an attacker against an organization? (Select all that apply)
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard 27002 provides guidance for compliance by outlining
Which of the following settings enables Nessus to detect when it is sending too many packets and the network pipe is approaching capacity?
Which Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) implements a web application full of known vulnerabilities?
A security policy will be more accepted by employees if it is consistent and has the support of
What is the main difference between a “Normal” SQL Injection and a “Blind” SQL Injection vulnerability?
A Security Engineer at a medium-sized accounting firm has been tasked with discovering how much information can be obtained from the firm's public facing web servers. The engineer decides to start by using netcat to port 80.
The engineer receives this output:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6
Expires: Tue, 17 Jan 2011 01:41:33 GMT
DatE. Mon, 16 Jan 2011 01:41:33 GMT
Content-TypE. text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-ModifieD. Wed, 28 Dec 2010 15:32:21 GMT
ETaG. "b0aac0542e25c31:89d"
Content-Length: 7369
Which of the following is an example of what the engineer performed?
What type of OS fingerprinting technique sends specially crafted packets to the remote OS and analyzes the received response?
