John works as a Penetration Tester in a security service providing firm named you-are-secure Inc. Recently, John's company has got a project to test the security of a promotional Website www.missatlanta.com and assigned the pen-testing work to John. When John is performing penetration testing, he inserts the following script in the search box at the company home page:
<script>alert('Hi, John')</script>
After pressing the search button, a pop-up box appears on his screen with the text - "Hi, John." Which of the following attacks can be performed on the Web site tested by john while considering the above scenario?
You work as a Security Administrator for Net Perfect Inc. The company has a Windows-based network. You want to use a scanning technique which works as a reconnaissance attack. The technique should direct to a specific host or network to determine the services that the host offers.
Which of the following scanning techniques can you use to accomplish the task?
Which of the following netcat parameters makes netcat a listener that automatically restarts itself when a connection is dropped?
Which of the following types of attacks is often performed by looking surreptitiously at the keyboard or monitor of an employee's computer?
As a professional hacker, you want to crack the security of secureserver.com. For this, in the information gathering step, you performed scanning with the help of nmap utility to retrieve as many different protocols as possible being used by the secureserver.com so that you could get the accurate knowledge about what services were being used by the secure server.com. Which of the following nmap switches have you used to accomplish the task?
John works as a Network Administrator for Perfect Solutions Inc. The company has a Linux-based network. The company is aware of various types of security attacks and wants to impede them. Hence, management has assigned John a project to port scan the company's Web Server. For this, he uses the nmap port scanner and issues the following command to perform idle port scanning:
nmap -PN -p- -sI IP_Address_of_Company_Server
He analyzes that the server's TCP ports 21, 25, 80, and 111 are open.
Which of the following security policies is the company using during this entire process to mitigate the risk of hacking attacks?
Which of the following types of malware does not replicate itself but can spread only when the circumstances are beneficial?
You are the Administrator for a corporate network. You are concerned about denial of service attacks.
Which of the following measures would be most helpful in defending against a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack?
Which of the following tools will you use to prevent from session hijacking?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Which of the following services CANNOT be performed by the nmap utility?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
