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Domain 2: Info Gathering and Vulnerability Identification Flashcards

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What is Domain 2 of the Pentest+?

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This domain covers information gathering and vulnerability identification

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What are the five main functions of Domain 2?

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  1. Conduct information gathering
  2. Perform Vulnerability Scanning
  3. Analyzing Results of Vuln Scan
  4. Leveraging Information for Exploitation
  5. Weaknesses in specialized systems
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What is information gathering also known as?

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This is also know as Reconnaissance or foot printing

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What are some techniques of foot printing?

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These are all techniques of this:

  • Internet or open-source research
  • Social Engineering
  • Dumpster Diving
  • Email Harvesting
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What kind of information are we looking for during reconnaissance?

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During this step,we are looking for:

  • Phone numbers
  • Contact Names
  • Email Addresses
  • security-related information
  • information systems used (windows, linux, apache, etc)
  • jobs postings
  • Resumes
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What are some reconnaissance tools?

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These are tools for this step in the pentesting process:

  • nslookup
  • traceroute
  • ping
  • whois
  • Domain Dossier
  • Email Dossier
  • Google
  • Social Networking (FB, Linkedin, etc)
  • Discover.sh
  • Maltego
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What tools does centralops.net provide?

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This website provides:

  • Email Dossiers
  • Domain Dossiers
  • Owner of the domain name
  • Technical Details
  • Network Ranges for the domain
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What is to be done after footprinting & reconnaissance?

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Scanning and enumeration is done after this step.

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What is scanning?

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When we actively connect to a system and get a response. Identify open ports and services.

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What are the types of scanning?

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These are types of this:

  • Hosts
  • Systems
  • Networks
  • Computers
  • Mobile Devices
  • Applications
  • Printers
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What is enumeration?

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Actively connecting to the systems to determine open shares, user accounts, software versions, and other detailed info.

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What types of enumerations are there?

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There are types:

  • hosts
  • Networks
  • Domains
  • Users/Groups
  • Network Shares
  • Web Pages
  • Application
  • Services
  • Tokens
  • Social Networks
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What is fingerprinting?

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This is identifying an operating system, server, service that is being used by a particular service or network.

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What is Banner Grabbing?

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This is manual enumeration and fingerprinting. Using program such as telnet or netcat to connect to a target host. Commonly used for FTP, SSH, Telnet, & HTTP

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What is packet crafting also known as?

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This is also known as packet manipulation

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What is packet crafting?

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This entails sending modified packet headers to gather information from a system or host

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What is packet inspection?

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This is manual enumeration performed by analyzing the captured packets to determine information

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When using nmap/zenmap, where do you typically want to start?

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With these tools you’ll typically want to start with the least intrusive scan.

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What is one of the least intrusive scans you can perform?

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This type of scan would be a ping scan.

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When scanning a network w/ nmap/zenmap, how would you list out a network with a /24? How about /16?

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  1. 168.52.0/24

192. 168.52.0/16

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When scanning a network with nmap/zenmap, how would scan a list of addresses?

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  1. 168.52.0-254

192. 168.52.0-224

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What would be the nmap command to run a simple ping scan on a network?

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nmap -sn [network address]

nmap -sn 192.168.52.0

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What information will a ping scan provide?

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This type of scan will provide information on what machines are up or down on a given network. Provides IP addresses and MAC addresses.

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We have two machines with the following IP addresses:

  1. 168.52.100
  2. 168.52.101

What would be the nmap command to run a quick scan?

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nmap -T4 -F 192.168.52.100-101

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What does it mean to have ports filtered?

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This means that a firewall, filter, or other network obstacle is blocking the port so that Nmap cannot tell whether it is open or closed.

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With Nmap, what would be an intrusive scan?

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With this tool this would be considered an intense scan.

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We have two machines with the following IP addresses:

  1. 168.52.100
  2. 168.52.101

What would be the nmap command to run an intense scan?

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nmap -T4 -A -v 192.168.52.100-101

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What is cryptographic Inspection?

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This determines the indentification of the type of encryption being used by machines/hosts/services/etc during information gathering.

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What is certificate inspection?

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Identify what type of encryption a web server is using. ie. SSL 2.0, TLS? Tools exist for this.

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Eavesdropping is considered what?

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This is considered a method of information gathering

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How can you eavesdrop on a network?

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You can do this by sniffing network traffic.

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What does it mean to sniff network traffic?

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Intercepting and logging network traffic that can be seen via the wired or wireless network interface.

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Can you capture network information about other parts of a network if you gain access to a particular host?

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Yes, if you can sniff additional network information by doing this.

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What are two commonly known tools to capture packets from a network & hosts?

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Wireshark and TCP are this.

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When using Wireshark to capture packet, what type of file can be created to log the information?

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This is a pcap file.

36
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What is decompiling?

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This is the process of reverse engineering software using a decompiler.

37
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What is an issue with a Decompiler?

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This tool will not always turn executables back into their source code, but can turn it back to Byte code or assembly.

38
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In pentesing, when can a decompiler be helpful?

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This can be helpful during a pentest when you’re testing custom built tools or applications.

39
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What does CERT stand for?

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Computer Emergency Response Team

40
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What are some open source resources that can be used for info gathering?

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These resources can be used for this:

  • CERT
  • JPCERT
  • NIST
  • CVEs (mitre)
  • CWE (mitre)
  • CAPEC (mitre)
  • Full Disclosure (nmap)
41
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When you see ‘CVE-2018-11232’, what does that mean?

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This means that it is the 11232nd vulnerability of 2018.

42
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Who submits their Common Vulns into the CVE database?

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All major vendors submit these to this location.

43
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What does CAPEC stand for?

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

44
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What does -sC mean in Nmap?

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This option is the default script scan

45
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What does -sV mean in Nmap?

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This option probes open ports to determine service/version info

46
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What is a vulnerability scan?

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This is a scan of a host, system, or network to determine what vulnerabilities exist.

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What is the primary thing to keep in mind in regards to vulnerabilities scanning?

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The tools used to do this are only as good as their configurations.

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What types of vuln scans are there?

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For this, there are two types of scans:

  • Credentialed
  • non-credentialed
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What are the four types of vuln scans?

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For this, there are four types:

  • Discovery Scan
  • Full Scan
  • Stealth Scan
  • Compliance Scan
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What is the least intrusive type of vuln scan? What does it do?

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This is a discovery scan. Used to create a network map to show connected devices on architecture.

51
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what would be the nmap command to run a simple discovery command?

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This type of scan would be:

-nmap -sn 192.168.52.0

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What does a full scan vuln scan do?

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This type of in-depth vuln scan includes ports, services, and vulns.

53
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What needs to be considered when running a full scan?

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This type of scan is likely to set off alarms (IDS, NDS, etc).

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What is the purpose of a stealth scan? What does it do?

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This type of scan is designed to not get picked up by the IDS. Sends SYN packets and then analyzes responses. If SYN/ACK response received, packet with RST is sent to attempt to connect on a port.

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What is the intent of a compliance scan? Where can this be done easily?

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This type of scan is used to identify vulnerabilities that may affect compliance with regulations or policies. Commonly set up as a scanning template in your vulnerability scanner (PCI-DSS within Nessus)

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What are some common vuln scanners?

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These are types of this:

  • QualysGuard
  • OpenVAS
  • Nessus
  • Nexpose
  • Nikto (Web Application Scanner)
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What are some important scanning considerations?

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These are…:

  • When do you run the scan?
  • What protocols will be used?
  • Where do you scan from?
  • How much bandwidth is dedicated to the scan?
  • Should we scan or exempt these (systems)?
58
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How do you throttle a query in nmap?

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To do this, you’ll use the ‘-T’ option within Nmap.

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What are the two types of application scanning?

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The two types of this are:

  • Dynamic
  • Static
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What is dynamic application scanning?

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This is a type of scan that occurs while application is running. Program is run in sandbox and changes noted.

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What is static application scanning?

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This type of scan occurs in a non-runtime environment for applications. It inspects programming code; can be doen line-by-line.

62
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What are containers similar to?

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These are similar to mini virtual machines

63
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What are some examples of containers?

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These are examples of this:

  • Docker
  • Puppet
  • Vagrant
64
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Do Containers require security? What could be a major issue?

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Yes, these still require security. They all run on a single, standardized OS. A flaw in this OS would mean vulnerabilities across multiple containers.

65
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What are some ways to analyze your vulnerability scans?

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These are ways to do this:

  • Asset Categorization
  • Adjudication
  • Prioritize Vulnerabilities
66
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When categorizing assets, what do we typically want to categorize first?

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When doing this, we want to identify high-value assets first. Domain controllers, Web Servers, Databases, etc

67
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What does Adjudication mean with respect to pentesting?

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This is the process of considering which vulnerabilities to attack.

68
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What is a false positive relative to a vuln scan? What should be done with them?

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This is a vulnerability that shows up in your scan, but is not an actual vuln on the system. False positives should filtered out of scan results.

69
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When scanning for vulns, what is important to find?

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During this, it is important to find common themes. Common vulns, common lack of best (weak) practices, Observations.

70
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What is an important step after a vuln is found and has been categorized? What is a good question to ask?

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Researching that particular vulnerability and find any/all exploits that exist. Does metasploit or nmap already have known exploits for this vuln?

71
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What are some examples of common attack techniques (vectors)?

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These are some examples:

  • cross-compiled code
  • exploit modification
  • exploit chaining
  • proof-of-concept dev
  • social engineering
  • credential brute forcing
  • dictionary attacks
  • Rainbow tables
  • Deception
72
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How can you create windows binary on a linux system?

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This can be done with tools like Mingw-w64.

73
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What is an example of an exploit chain?

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These are examples of this:

  • Exploit to break past firewall
  • Gain access to user system
  • Escalate the privileges
74
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What does it mean to have a proof-of-concept development?

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This involves building out and attacking a virtual environment that mimics the real system/environment.

75
Q

What does ICS stand for?

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Industrial Control System

76
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What does SCADA Stand for?

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Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

77
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What does PLC stand for?

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Programmable Logic Controller

78
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What does ICS, SCADA, & PLC all work together with?

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These three work together with HVAC, Factories, pumps, etc. These three are old technologies that are integrated with old operating systems.

79
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Where are ICS, SCADA, & PLC often located?

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These three things are often located off of and separate of a network.

80
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What items contain embedded devices? What do embedded devices contain?

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Cars, ICS/SCADA contain These. These contain a special purpose computing system.

81
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What is an RTOS? Where are they found?

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This is a Real-Time Operating system. These are often found in embedded devices. Usually stripped down version of linux.

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