What does the term "Ethical Hacking" mean?
What does the term “Ethical Hacking” mean?
From the above list identify the user account with System Administrator privileges?
Peter extracts the SID list from Windows 2000 Server machine using the hacking tool “SIDExtracter”. Here is the output of the SIDs:
S-1-5-21-1125394485-807628933-549785860-100 John
-1-5-21-1125394485-807628933-549785860-652 Rebecca
-1-5-21-1125394485-807628933-549785860-412 Sheela
-1-5-21-1125394485-807628933-549785860-999 Shawn
-1-5-21-1125394485-807628933-549785860-777 Somia
-1-5-21-1125394485-807628933-549785860-500 Chang
-1-5-21-1125394485-807628933-549785860-555 Micah
From the above list identify the user account with System Administrator privileges?
What is Peter Smith talking about?
You went to great lengths to install all the necessary technologies to prevent hacking attacks, such as expensive firewalls, antivirus software, antispam systems and intrusion detection/prevention tools in your company’s network. You have configured the most secure policies and tightened every device on your network. You are confident that hackers will never be able to gain access to your network with complex security system in place.
Your peer, Peter Smith who works at the same department disagrees with you. He says even the best network security technologies cannot prevent hackers gaining access to the network because of presence of “weakest link” in the security chain.
What is Peter Smith talking about?
What do you think is the main reason we have seen such a huge increase in hacking attempts over the past years
Statistics from cert.org and other leading security organizations have clearly shown a steady increase in the number of hacking incidents against companies. What do you think is the main reason we have seen such a huge increase in hacking attempts over the past years?
How would you proceed?
You are trying to break into a highly classified top-secret mainframe computer with highest security system in place at Merclyn Barley Bank located in Los Angeles. You know that conventional hacking doesn’t work in this case, because organizations such as banks are generally tight and secure when it comes to protecting their systems. In other words you are trying to penetrate an otherwise impenetrable system.
How would you proceed?
What hacking attack is challenge/response authentication used to prevent?
What hacking attack is challenge/response authentication used to prevent?
What is this law called?
The United Kingdom (UK) has passed a law that makes hacking into an unauthorized network a felony.
The law states:
Section 1 of the Act refers to unauthorized access to computer material. This states that a person commits an offence if he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure unauthorized access to any program or data held in any computer. For a successful conviction under this part of the Act, the prosecution must prove that the access secured is unauthorized and that the suspect knew that this was the case. This section is designed to deal with common-or- garden hacking.
Section 2 of the Act deals with unauthorized access with intent to commit or facilitate the commission of further offences. An offence is committed under Section 2 if a Section 1 offence has been committed and there is the intention of committing or facilitating a further offence (any offence which attracts a custodial sentence of more than five years, not necessarily one covered by the Act). Even if it is not possible to prove the intent to commit the further offence, the Section 1 offence is still committed.
Section 3 offences cover unauthorized modification of computer material, which generally means the creation and distribution of viruses. For a conviction to succeed there must have been the intent to cause the modification, and knowledge that the modification had not been authorized.
What is this law called?
Which of the following options would indicate the best course of action for John?
John wants to try a new hacking tool on his Linux system. As the application comes from a site in his untrusted zone, John wants to ensure that the downloaded tool has not been Trojaned. Which of the following options would indicate the best course of action for John?
What do you think would be the next sequence of events?
Chris has been called upon to investigate a hacking incident reported by one of his clients. The company suspects the involvement of an insider accomplice in the attack. Upon reaching the incident scene, Chris secures the physical area, records the scene using visual media. He shuts the system down by pulling the power plug so that he does not disturb the system in any way. He labels all cables and connectors prior to disconnecting any. What do you think would be the next sequence of events?
What tool would be best used to have the LM hashes computed for all possible permutations of the administrator
Johnny is a member of the hacking group Orpheus1. He is currently working on breaking into the Department of Defense’s front end Exchange Server. He was able to get into the server, located in a DMZ, by using an unused service account that had a very weak password that he was able to guess. Johnny wants to crack the administrator password, but does not have a lot of time to crack it. He wants to use a tool that already has the LM hashes computed for all possible permutations of the administrator password.?
What tool would be best used to accomplish this?