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Q1. Which of the following is the primary objective of a rootkit?
A. It opens a port to provide an unauthorized service
B. It creates a buffer overflow
C. It replaces legitimate programs
D. It provides an undocumented opening in a program
Answer: C
Explanation: Actually the objective of the rootkit is more to hide the fact that a system has been compromised and the normal way to do this is by exchanging, for example, ls to a version that doesn’t show the files and process implanted by the attacker.
Q2. Josh is the network administrator for Consultants Galore, an IT consulting firm based in Kansas City. Josh is responsible for the company's entire network which consists of one Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain. Almost all employees have Remote Desktop access to the servers so they can perform their work duties. Josh has created a security group in Active Directory called "RDP Deny" which contains all the user accounts that should not have Remote Desktop permission to any of the servers. What Group Policy change can Jayson make to ensure that all users in the "RDP Deny" group cannot access the company servers through Remote Desktop?
A. Josh should add the "RDP Deny" group into the list of Restricted Groups to prevent the users from accessing servers remotely.
B. By adding the "RDP Deny" group to the "Deny logon as a service" policy, the users in that security group will not be able to establish remote connections to any of the servers.
C. He should add the "RDP Deny" group to the "Deny RDP connections to member servers" policy.
D. Josh needs to add the "RDP Deny" group to the "Deny logon through Terminal Services" policy. *
Answer: D
New questions
604. Which of the following countermeasure can specifically protect against both the MAC Flood and MAC Spoofing attacks?
A. Configure Port Security on the switch
B. Configure Port Recon on the switch
C. Configure Switch Mapping
D. Configure Multiple Recognition on the switch
Q3. ou are footprinting the www.xsecurity.com domain using the Google Search Engine. You would like to determine what sites link to www.xsecurity .com at the first level of revelance.
Which of the following operator in Google search will you use to achieve this?
A. Link: www.xsecurity.com
B. serch?l:www.xsecurity.com
C. level1.www.security.com
D. pagerank:www.xsecurity.com
Answer: A
Explanation: The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list webpages that have links pointing to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page url.
Topic 3, Scanning
35. 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.
A. UDP is filtered by a gateway
B. The packet TTL value is too low and cannot reach the target
C. The host might be down
D. The destination network might be down
E. The TCP windows size does not match
F. ICMP is filtered by a gateway
Q4. ou are footprinting Acme.com to gather competitive intelligence. You visit the acme.com websire for contact information and telephone number numbers but do not find it listed there. You know that they had the entire staff directory listed on their website 12 months ago but now it is not there. How would it be possible for you to retrieve information from the website that is outdated?
A. Visit google search engine and view the cached copy.
B. Visit Archive.org site to retrieve the Internet archive of the acme website.
C. Crawl the entire website and store them into your computer.
D. Visit the company’s partners and customers website for this information.
Answer: B
Explanation: The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an archive of Web and multimedia resources. Located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, this archive includes "snapshots of the World Wide Web" (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), software, movies, books, and audio recordings (including recordings of live concerts from bands that allow it). This site is found at www.archive.org.
Q5. Which is the right sequence of packets sent during the initial TCP three way handshake?
A. FIN, FIN-ACK, ACK
B. SYN, URG, ACK
C. SYN, ACK, SYN-ACK
D. SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK
Answer: D
Explanation: A TCP connection always starts with a request for synchronization, a SYN, the reply to that would be another SYN together with a ACK to acknowledge that the last package was delivered successfully and the last part of the three way handshake should be only an ACK to acknowledge that the SYN reply was recived.
Q6. Jess the hacker runs L0phtCrack’s built-in sniffer utility which grabs SMB password hashes and stores them for offline cracking. Once cracked, these passwords can provide easy access to whatever network resources the user account has access to.
But Jess is not picking up hashed from the network.
Why?
A. The network protocol is configured to use SMB Signing.
B. The physical network wire is on fibre optic cable.
C. The network protocol is configured to use IPSEC.
D. L0phtCrack SMB filtering only works through Switches and not Hubs.
Answer: A
Explanation: To protect against SMB session hijacking, NT supports a cryptographic integrity mechanism, SMB Signing, to prevent active network taps from interjecting themselves into an already established session.
Q7. The FIN flag is set and sent from host A to host B when host A has no more data to transmit (Closing a TCP connection). This flag releases the connection resources. However, host A can continue to receive data as long as the SYN sequence number of transmitted packets from host B are lower than the packet segment containing the set FIN flag.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A
Explanation: For sequence number purposes, the SYN is considered to occur before the first actual data octet of the segment in which it occurs, while the FIN is considered to occur after the last actual data octet in a segment in which it occurs. So packets receiving out of order will still be accepted.
Q8. While investigating a claim of a user downloading illegal material, the investigator goes through the files on the suspect’s workstation. He comes across a file that is called ‘file.txt’ but when he opens it, he find the following:
What does this file contain?
A. A picture that has been renamed with a .txt extension.
B. An encrypted file.
C. A uuencoded file.
D. A buffer overflow.
Answer: D
Explanation: This is a buffer overflow exploit with its “payload” in hexadecimal format.
Q9. This is an authentication method in which is used to prove that a party knows a password without transmitting the password in any recoverable form over a network. This authentication is secure because the password is never transmitted over the network, even in hashed form; only a random number and an encrypted random number are sent.
A. Realm Authentication
B. SSL Authentication
C. Basic Form Authentication
D. Cryptographic Authentication
E. Challenge/Response Authentication
Answer: E
Explanation: Challenge-Response Authentication The secure Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism (CRAM-MD5) avoids passing a cleartext password over the network when you access your email account, ensuring that your login details cannot be captured and used by anyone in transit. http://www.neomailbox.com/component/content/article/212-hardware-token-authentication
Q10. When a normal TCP connection starts, a destination host receives a SYN (synchronize/start) packet from a source host and sends back a SYN/ACK (synchronize acknowledge). The destination host must then hear an ACK (acknowledge) of the SYN/ACK before the connection is established. This is referred to as the "TCP three-way handshake." While waiting for the ACK to the SYN ACK, a connection queue of finite size on the destination host keeps track of connections waiting to be completed. This queue typically empties quickly since the ACK is expected to arrive a few milliseconds after the SYN ACK. How would an attacker exploit this design by launching TCP SYN attack?
A. Attacker generates TCP SYN packets with random destination addresses towards a victim host
B. Attacker floods TCP SYN packets with random source addresses towards a victim host
C. Attacker generates TCP ACK packets with random source addresses towards a victim host
D. Attacker generates TCP RST packets with random source addresses towards a victim host
Answer: B
Q11. A buffer overflow occurs when a program or process tries to store more data in a buffer (temporary data storage area) then it was intended to hold.
What is the most common cause of buffer overflow in software today?
A. Bad permissions on files.
B. High bandwidth and large number of users.
C. Usage of non standard programming languages.
D. Bad quality assurance on software produced.
Answer: D
Explanation: Technically, a buffer overflow is a problem with the program's internal implementation.
Q12. You are the chief information officer for your company, a shipping company based out of Oklahoma City. You are responsible for network security throughout the home office and all branch offices. You have implemented numerous layers of security from logical to physical. As part of your procedures, you perform a yearly network assessment which includes vulnerability analysis, internal network scanning, and external penetration tests. Your main concern currently is the server in the DMZ which hosts a number of company websites. To see how the server appears to external users, you log onto a laptop at a Wi-Fi hot spot. Since you already know the IP address of the web server, you create a telnet session to that server and type in the command:
HEAD /HTTP/1.0
After typing in this command, you are presented with the following screen:
What are you trying to do here?
A. You are attempting to send an html file over port 25 to the web server.
B. By typing in the HEAD command, you are attempting to create a buffer overflow on the web server.
C. You are trying to open a remote shell to the web server.
D. You are trying to grab the banner of the web server. *
Answer: D
Q13. Bob is acknowledged as a hacker of repute and is popular among visitors of “underground” sites. Bob is willing to share his knowledge with those who are willing to learn, and many have expressed their interest in learning from him. However, this knowledge has a risk associated with it, as it can be used for malevolent attacks as well.
In this context, what would be the most affective method to bridge the knowledge gap between the “black” hats or crackers and the “white” hats or computer security professionals? (Choose the test answer)
A. Educate everyone with books, articles and training on risk analysis, vulnerabilities and safeguards.
B. Hire more computer security monitoring personnel to monitor computer systems and networks.
C. Make obtaining either a computer security certification or accreditation easier to achieve so more individuals feel that they are a part of something larger than life.
D. Train more National Guard and reservist in the art of computer security to help out in times of emergency or crises.
Answer: A
Explanation: Bridging the gap would consist of educating the white hats and the black hats equally so that their knowledge is relatively the same. Using books, articles, the internet, and professional training seminars is a way of completing this goal.
Q14. You want to scan the live machine on the LAN, what type of scan you should use?
A. Connect
B. SYN
C. TCP
D. UDP
E. PING
Answer: E
Explanation: The ping scan is one of the quickest scans that nmap performs, since no actual ports are queried. Unlike a port scan where thousands of packets are transferred between two stations, a ping scan requires only two frames. This scan is useful for locating active devices or determining if ICMP is passing through a firewall.
Q15. An attacker has been successfully modifying the purchase price of items purchased at a web site. The security administrators verify the web server and Oracle database have not been compromised directly. They have also verified the IDS logs and found no attacks that could have caused this. What is the mostly likely way the attacker has been able to modify the price?
A. By using SQL injection
B. By using cross site scripting
C. By changing hidden form values in a local copy of the web page
D. There is no way the attacker could do this without directly compromising either the web server or the database
Answer: C
Explanation: Changing hidden form values is possible when a web site is poorly built and is trusting the visitors computer to submit vital data, like the price of a product, to the database.