What type of wiretapping involves injecting something into the communications?
A.
Aggressive
B.
Captive
C.
Passive
D.
Active
Explanation:
Most communications are vulnerable to some type of wiretapping or eavesdropping. It can usually
be done undetected and is referred to as a passive attack versus an active attack. – Shon Harris All-inone CISSP Certification Guide pg 649 “(I) An attack that intercepts and accesses data and other
information contained in a flow in a communication system. (C) Although the term originally
referred to making a mechanical connection to an electrical conductor that links two nodes, it is now
used to refer to reading information from any sort of medium used for a link or even directly from a
node, such as gateway or subnetwork switch. (C) “Active wiretapping” attempts to alter the data or
otherwise affect the flow; “passive wiretapping” only attempts to observe the flow and gainknowledge of information it contains. (See: active attack, end-to-end encryption, passive attack.)”
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