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Chapter 12 Attacks and Malware
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05/09/2017

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A SYN  is an example of what type of attack?
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Denial-of-service
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An attack in which the attacker simply listens for all traffic being transmitted across a network, in the hope of viewing something suchs as user ID and password combination is known as:
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A sniffin attack
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Which attack takes advantage of a trusted realtionship that exists between the two systems?
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Spoofing
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In what type of attack does an attacker resend the series of commands and codes used in a financial transaction to cause the transaction to be conducted several times?
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Replay
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An attacker's ability to crack passwords is directly related to the method the user employed to create a password, as well as:
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The dictionary and rules used by cracking program
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A piece of malicious code that must attach itself to another file to replicate itself is known as:
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A virus
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A piece of malacious code that appears to be designed to do one thing (and may in fact do that thing) but hides some other payload often malicious) is known as:
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A trojan
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Malicious code thats is set to execute its payload in a specific time is known as:
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A logic bomb or A time bomb
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Making data look like it has come froma a different source is called
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Spoofing
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A term used to refer to the process of taking of an already existing session between client and server is
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TCP/IP hijaking
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