Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Q

What is a Smurf Attack?

A

denial of service attack in which a system is flooded with spoofed ping messages.

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2
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Which of the following is an attack that seeks to attack a website, based on the website’s trust of an authenticated user?

A

CSRF

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3
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When a web application, under certain conditions, can generate a memory leak. What, type of attack would this leave the application vulnerable to?

A

DoS

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4
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What is Cross-site scripting?

A

Cross-site scripting is an attack on the user that is based on the user trusting the website

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What is Cross-site request forgery?

A

Cross-site request forgery is an attack on the website that is based on the website trusting the user.

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