Harold works for Jacobson Unlimited in the IT department as the security manager. Harold has
created a security policy requiring all employees to use complex 14 character passwords.
Unfortunately, the members of management do not want to have to use such long complicated
passwords so they tell Harold’s boss this new password policy should not apply to them. To
comply with the management’s wishes, the IT department creates another Windows domain and
moves all the management users to that domain. This new domain has a password policy only
requiring 8 characters.
Harold is concerned about having to accommodate the managers, but cannot do anything about it.
Harold is also concerned about using LanManager security on his network instead of NTLM or
NTLMv2, but the many legacy applications on the network prevent using the more secure NTLM
and NTLMv2. Harold pulls the SAM files from the DC’s on the original domain and the new domain
using Pwdump6.
Harold uses the password cracking software John the Ripper to crack users’ passwords to make
sure they are strong enough. Harold expects that the users’ passwords in the original domain will
take much longer to crack than the management’s passwords in the new domain. After running the
software, Harold discovers that the 14 character passwords only took a short time longer to crack
than the 8 character passwords.
Why did the 14 character passwords not take much longer to crack than the 8 character
passwords?

Jess the hacker runs L0phtCrack’s built-in sniffer utility that 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 hashes
from the network. Why?

When writing shellcodes, you must avoid ____________ because these will end the string.

You establish a new Web browser connection to Google. Since a 3-way handshake is required for
any TCP connection, the following actions will take place.

DNS query is sent to the DNS server to resolve www.google.com
DNS server replies with the IP address for Google?
SYN packet is sent to Google.
Google sends back a SYN/ACK packet
Your computer completes the handshake by sending an ACK
The connection is established and the transfer of data commences
Which of the following packets represent completion of the 3-way handshake?

E-mail tracking is a method to monitor and spy the delivered e-mails to the intended recipient.

Select a feature, which you will NOT be able to accomplish with this probe?

Which of the following Trojans would be considered ‘Botnet Command Control Center’?

What type of Virus is shown here?

John is using a special tool on his Linux platform that has a database containing signatures to be
able to detect hundreds of vulnerabilities in UNIX, Windows, and commonly used web CGI/ASPX
scripts. Moreover, the database detects DDoS zombies and Trojans as well. What would be the
name of this tool?

Fred is scanning his network to ensure it is as secure as possible. Fred sends a TCP probe packet
to a host with a FIN flag and he receives a RST/ACK response. What does this mean?

Your company has blocked all the ports via external firewall and only allows port 80/443 to
connect to the Internet. You want to use FTP to connect to some remote server on the Internet.
How would you accomplish this?