Bill is the accounting manager for Grummon and Sons LLC in Chicago. On a regular basis, he
needs to send PDF documents containing sensitive information through E-mail to his customers.
Bill protects the PDF documents with a password and sends them to their intended recipients.
Why PDF passwords do not offer maximum protection?

You are the network administrator for a small bank in Dallas, Texas. To ensure network security,
you enact a security policy that requires all users to have 14 character passwords. After giving
your users 2 weeks notice, you change the Group Policy to force 14 character passwords. A week
later you dump the SAM database from the standalone server and run a password-cracking tool
against it. Over 99% of the passwords are broken within an hour. Why were these passwords
cracked so quickly?

In Linux, what is the smallest possible shellcode?

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Paulette works for an IT security consulting company that is currently performing an audit for the
firm ACE Unlimited. Paulette’s duties include logging on to all the company’s network equipment to
ensure IOS versions are up-to-date and all the other security settings are as stringent as possible.
Paulette presents the following screenshot to her boss so he can inform the client about necessary
changes need to be made. From the screenshot, what changes should the client company make?
Exhibit:

At what layer of the OSI model do routers function on?

What is the target host IP in the following command?

What are the security risks of running a “repair” installation for Windows XP?

What will the following command produce on a website login page?What will the following
command produce on a website? login page?
SELECT email, passwd, login_id, full_name
FROM members
WHERE email = ‘someone@somehwere.com’; DROP TABLE members; –‘

If you come across a sheepdip machine at your client site, what would you infer?

In a computer forensics investigation, what describes the route that evidence takes from the time
you find it until the case is closed or goes to court?