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Briefing 312-49: ECCouncil Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (update December 06th, 2017)

What principal of social engineering did Julia use?

Julia is a senior security analyst for Berber Consulting group. She is currently working on a contract for a small
accounting firm in Florid a. They have given her permission to perform social engineering attacks on the
company to see if their in-house training did any good. Julia calls the main number for the accounting firm and
talks to the receptionist. Julia says that she is an IT technician from the company’s main office in Iowa. She
states that she needs the receptionist’s network username and password to troubleshoot a problem they are
having. Julia says that Bill Hammond, the CEO of the company, requested this information. After hearing the
name of the CEO, the receptionist gave Julia all the information she asked for. What principal of social
engineering did Julia use?

What tool could you use to get this information?

You are the security analyst working for a private company out of France. Your current assignment is to obtain
credit card information from a Swiss bank owned by that company. After initial reconnaissance, you discover
that the bank security defenses are very strong and would take too long to penetrate. You decide to get the
information by monitoring the traffic between the bank and one of its subsidiaries in London. After monitoring
some of the traffic, you see a lot of FTP packets traveling back and forth. You want to sniff the traffic and
extract usernames and passwords. What tool could you use to get this information?

What type of virus is this that you are testing?

You are running known exploits against your network to test for possible vulnerabilities. To test the strength of
your virus software, you load a test network to mimic your production network. Your software successfully
blocks some simple macro and encrypted viruses. You decide to really test the software by using virus code
where the code rewrites itself entirely and the signatures change from child to child, but the functionality stays
the same. What type of virus is this that you are testing?

What is he testing at this point?

Kyle is performing the final testing of an application he developed for the accounting department.
His last round of testing is to ensure that the program is as secure as possible. Kyle runs the following
command. What is he testing at this point?
#include #include int main(int argc, char
*argv[]) { char buffer[10]; if (argc < 2) { fprintf (stderr, “USAGE: %s string\\n”, argv[0]); return 1; }
strcpy(buffer, argv[1]); return 0; }


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