Deck 1: Cybersecurity and Technology

Question 1

This technology is used to measure and analyze human body characteristics for authentication purposes.

A)Footprinting
B)Biometrics
C)JBOD
D)Anthropomorphism

Answer 1

Biometrics

Question 2

__________ is an electronic or paper log used to track computer activity.

A)Traceroute
B)Cookie
C)Weblog
D)Audit trail

Answer 2

Audit trail

Question 3

This is a series of messages sent by someone attempting to break into a computer to learn which computer network services the computer provides.

A)Bit robbing
B)Web services description language (WSDL)
C)Jabber
D)Port scan

Answer 3

Port scan

Question 4

This is the name for a group of programmers who are hired to expose errors or security holes in new software or to find out why a computer network's security is being broken.

A)ERM group
B)Computer emergency response tea
C)Tiger team
D)Silicone cockroach

Question 5

This is a mechanism for ensuring that only authorized users can copy or use specific software applications.

A)Authorized program analysis report
B)Private key
C)Service level agreement
D)Dongle

Question 6

At which two traffic layers do most commercial IDSes generate signatures?

A)Application layer
B)Network layer
C)Session layer
D)Transport layer

Question 7

This is a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) card that offloads SSL processing to speed up secure transactions on e-commerce Web sites.

A)PCMCIA card
B)Smart card
C)Server accelerator card
D)Network interface card

Question 8

___________is a form of eavesdropping used to pick up telecommunication signals by monitoring the electromagnetic fields produced by the signals.

A)Reverse engineering
B)Magneto resistive head technology
C)Van Eck phreaking
D)Electronic data processing (EDP)

Question 9

This enables users of a basically unsecure public network such as the Internet to securely and privately exchange data and money through the use of a public and a private cryptographic key pair that is obtained and shared through a trusted authority.

A)Security Identifier (SID)
B)Public key infrastructure (PKI)
C)Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
D)Private Branch Exchange (PBX)

Question 10

This is an assault on the integrity of a security system in which the attacker substitutes a section of cipher text (encrypted text) with a different section that looks like (but is not the same as) the one removed.

A)Trojan horse
B)Hashing
C)Switching fabric
D)Cut and paste attack

Question 11

Which of the following is an advantage of anomaly detection?

A)Rules are easy to define.
B)Custom protocols can be easily analyzed.
C)The engine can scale as the rule set grows.
D)Malicious activity that falls within normal usage patterns is detected.

Question 12

A false positive can be defined as…

A)An alert that indicates nefarious activity on a system that, upon further inspection, turns out to represent legitimate network traffic or behavior.
B)An alert that indicates nefarious activity on a system that is not running on the network.
C)The lack of an alert for nefarious activity.
D)Both a. and b.

Question 13

This is an encryption/decryption key known only to the party or parties that exchange secret messages.

A)E-signature
B)Digital certificate
C)Private key
D)Security token

Question 14

What is the purpose of a shadow honeypot?

A)To flag attacks against known vulnerabilities
B)To help reduce false positives in a signature-based IDS.
C)To randomly check suspicious traffic identified by an anomaly detection system.
D)To enhance the accuracy of a traditional honeypot.

Question 15

This is is the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination.

A)Secret key algorithm
B)Message queuing
C)Spyware
D)Steganography

Question 16

An IDS follows a two-step process consisting of a passive component and an active component. Which of the following is part of the active component?

A)Inspection of password files to detect inadvisable passwords
B)Mechanisms put in place to reenact known methods of attack and record system responses
C)Inspection of system to detect policy violations
D)Inspection of configuration files to detect inadvisable settings

Question 17

When discussing IDS/IPS, what is a signature?

A)An electronic signature used to authenticate the identity of a user on the network
B)Attack-definition file
C)It refers to "normal," baseline network behavior
D)None of the above

Question 18

"Semantics-aware" signatures automatically generated by Nemean are based on traffic at which two layers?

A)Application layer
B)Network layer
C)Session layer
D)Both a and c

Question 19

In what type of attack does an intruder manipulate a URL in such a way that the Web server executes or reveals the contents of a file anywhere on the server, including those lying outside the document root directory?

A)Cross-site scripting
B)Command injection
C)SQL injection
D)Path traversal attacks

Question 20

Which of the following is true of improper error handling?

A)Attackers can use error messages to extract specific information from a system.
B)Attackers can use unexpected errors to knock an application off line, creating a denial-of- service attack.
C)Unexpected errors can provide an attacker with a buffer or stack overflow condition that sets the stage for an arbitrary code execution.
D)All of the above.

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT recommended for securing Web applications against authenticated users?

A)Client-side data validation
B)Filtering data with a default deny regular expression
C)Running the application under least privileges necessary
D)Using parameterized queries to access a database

Question 22

In which of the following exploits does an attacker insert malicious coding into a link that appears to be from a trustworthy source?

A)Cross-site scripting
B)Command injection
C)Path traversal attack
D)Buffer overflow

Question 23

In which of the following exploits does an attacker add SQL code to a Web form input box to gain access to resources or make changes to data?

A)Cross-site scripting
B)Command injection
C)SQL injection
D)Buffer overflow

Question 24

Which of the following is characteristic of spyware?

A)Blocking access to antivirus and antispyware updates
B)Aggregating surfing habits across multiple users for advertising
C)Customizing search results based on an advertiser's needs
D)All of the above

Question 25

One of the most obvious places to put an IDS sensor is near the firewall. Where exactly in relation to the firewall is the most productive placement?

A)Inside the firewall
B)Outside the firewall
C)Both
D)None