What is the appropriate next step?
A computer technician is using a new version of a word processing software package when it
is discovered that a special sequence of characters causes the entire computer to crash. The
technician researches the bug and discovers that no one else experienced the problem. What is
the appropriate next step?
What is the most secure way to mitigate the theft of corporate information from a laptop that was left in a ho
What is the most secure way to mitigate the theft of corporate information from a laptop that was
left in a hotel room?
What should the security team do to determine which alerts to check first?
The intrusion detection system at a software development company suddenly generates multiple
alerts regarding attacks against the company’s external webserver, VPN concentrator, and DNS
servers. What should the security team do to determine which alerts to check first?
Which technique could be used to obtain login credentials?
A corporation hired an ethical hacker to test if it is possible to obtain users’ login credentials using
methods other than social engineering. Access to offices and to a network node is granted.
Results from server scanning indicate all are adequately patched and physical access is denied,
thus, administrators have access only through Remote Desktop. Which technique could be used
to obtain login credentials?
Which of the following scanning tools is specifically designed to find potential exploits in Microsoft Windows
Which of the following scanning tools is specifically designed to find potential exploits in Microsoft
Windows products?
Which of the statements concerning proxy firewalls is correct?
Which of the statements concerning proxy firewalls is correct?
Which of the following is an example of two factor authentication?
Which of the following is an example of two factor authentication?
Which of the following is likely to occur as a result?
A security consultant is trying to bid on a large contract that involves penetration testing and
reporting. The company accepting bids wants proof of work so the consultant prints out several
audits that have been performed. Which of the following is likely to occur as a result?
which of the following is likely to be installed on the target machine by the OS?
A penetration tester is conducting a port scan on a specific host. The tester found several ports
opened that were confusing in concluding the Operating System (OS) version installed.
Considering the NMAP result below, which of the following is likely to be installed on the target
machine by the OS?
Starting NMAP 5.21 at 2011-03-15 11:06
NMAP scan report for 172.16.40.65
Host is up (1.00s latency).
Not shown: 993 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
23/tcp open telnet
80/tcp open http
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
515/tcp open
631/tcp open ipp
9100/tcp open
MAC Address: 00:00:48:0D:EE:89
What is the outcome of the comm”nc -l -p 2222 | nc 10.1.0.43 1234"?
What is the outcome of the comm”nc -l -p 2222 | nc 10.1.0.43 1234″?