Peter is a Network Admin. He is concerned that his network is vulnerable to a smurf attack.
What should Peter do to prevent a smurf attack?

Select the best answer.

Eve decides to get her hands dirty and tries out a Denial of Service attack that is relatively new to her. This time she envisages using a different kind of method to attack Brownies Inc. Eve tries to forge the packets and uses the broadcast address. She launches an attack similar to that of fraggle. What is the technique that Eve used in the case above?

Henry is an attacker and wants to gain control of a system and use it to flood a target system with requests, so as to prevent legitimate users from gaining access. What type of attack is Henry using?

SYN Flood is a DOS attack in which an attacker deliberately violates the three-way handshake and opens a large number of half-open TCP connections.

The signature for SYN Flood attack is:

You have been called to investigate a sudden increase in network traffic at company. It seems that the traffic generated was too heavy that normal business functions could no longer be rendered to external employees and clients. After a quick investigation, you find that the computer has services running attached to TFN2k and Trinoo software. What do you think was the most likely cause behind this sudden increase in traffic?

If you send a SYN to an open port, what is the correct response?(Choose all correct answers.

When working with Windows systems, what is the RID of the true administrator account?

How does a denial-of-service attack work?

A Buffer Overflow attack involves:

What would best be defined as a security test on services against a known vulnerability database using an automated tool?