Ch.14 Network threats and Mitigation

Question 1

____Prevents users from access to the network

Answer 1

DoS

Question 2

___ is very large ICMP packets sent to the remote host victim flooding the victims buffer causing a reboot or a hang.

Answer 2

Ping of death

Question 3

An unreachable gateway is an attempt to make a hosts ____ unreachable so the attacker can preform a ____ attack

Answer 3

Default gateway, Man in the middle

Question 4

An amplified DoS attack is a ___ attack

Answer 4

Distributed denial of service (DDoS).

Question 5

A traffic spike is a ___ flood

Answer 5

SYN

Question 6

___ is the process of changing a source IP address so that one computer appears to be a different computer

Answer 6

Spoofing

Question 7

ARP cache poising is___

Answer 7

ARP spoofing

Question 8

Changing the http packet is known as ___ spoofing

Answer 8

Referrer spoofing

Question 9

Zero day attacks refer to what?

Answer 9

new bugs and viruses that have not yet been known and corrected.

Question 10

___addresses methods of spying used on information systems and how to protect against them

Answer 10

TEMPEST

Question 11

When somebody intercepts packets intended for one computer and reads the data is known as ____

Answer 11

Man in the middle

Question 12

Constantly scanning the network for break-ins is known as ____

Answer 12

Active detection

Question 13

The logging of network events to a file is known as ___

Answer 13

Passive detection

Question 14

___involves using tools to shore up network walls against attacks

Answer 14

Proactive defense.