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FBLA Practice Flashcards

1
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IBM, Microsoft, and Novell universal biometric standard

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Bio API

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Attack type that relies on trust and deception

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Social Engineering

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How can you prevent intruders from accessing your wireless network?

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Restrict to known MAC addresses

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4
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Microsoft Passport is what?

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Single Sign-On

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Computer system designed to trap intruders

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Honeypot

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Stateful Inspection

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Compares parts of a packet to trusted information

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TCP

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Internet protocol to get data from one device to another (Transmission Control Protocol)

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UDP

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Protocol for information without a response, like streaming (User Datagram Protocol)

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ICMP

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Router to Router Protocol (Internet Control Message Protocol)

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SMTP

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Email or text transfer protocol (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)

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SNMP

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Used to collect system info from a remote computer (Simple Network Management Protocol)

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Telnet

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Used to preform commands on a remote machine (often insecure)

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13
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Application Backdoor

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Hidden access coded in by developer

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14
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SMTP Session Hijacking

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Allows access to email addresses and therefore spam

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15
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Email Bomb

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Large quantity of email to overwhelm server, prevents access

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16
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Redirect bomb

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Attack using ICMP to change the path of information

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17
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Source Routing

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Controlling the path of a packet from the source

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18
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Proxy Server

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Server that local packets go through before internet

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19
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Adware

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Malware the displays ads, often collecting personal info

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20
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Attack

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Bypassing security

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21
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Audit trail

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Recording showing who and what a user did on a computer

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22
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Authentication

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Verifying a user’s identity

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Blended threat

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Combining types of malware to inflict maximum damage, such a trojan horse worm

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Dictionary Attack

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Using a list of words to try and find a password

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Brute-force attack

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Using every possible possible password combination

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EULA

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End User License Agreement

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27
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Flooding

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Denial of Service through sending large amounts of data

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Pharming

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Like Phishing, except done through DNS poisoning (redirecting a user through false information put into a DNS server)

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RADIUS

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Authentication service used by ISPs to manage access to the ISP system

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Retro-Virus

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Infects all backup media to ensure you cannot restore system

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Rootkit

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Allows complete access to a system with a hidden presence

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Smurfing

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Denial of service attack using ICMP and a Smurfed IP address, exploits Echo requests

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Spyware

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Hidden components of software that harvest personal information

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Threat

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Anything that has the potential to attack or threaten a system

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Vulnerability

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Something that a threat can exploit to carry out an attack

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Worm

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Self Replicating program, often used to clog networks through its spread

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Worm

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Self Replicating program, often used to clog networks through its spread

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APT

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Advanced Persistent Threat, coordinated, complex, and long term threat

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Air Gap

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Physically Isolation of a network

40
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Asymmetric Cryptography

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Private/Public Key Cryptography, Must use both keys, allows no shared secrets

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Botnet

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Multiple computers AKA zombies, controlled by single entity, used for DDoS,

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CERT

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Computer Emergency Response Team, often government or corporate run teams of cybersec. expertise

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Conflicker

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2008 Computer Worm, noteworthy for large size of botnet and international response

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DNS

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Domain Name System, translates IP addresses into words

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FedRAMP

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Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, 2012 Program that allowed 1 certification for all US Civilian Government Work

46
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FedRAMP

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Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, 2012 Program that allowed 1 certification for all US Civilian Government Work

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GhostNet

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1295 computer botnet, spread over 103 countries, discovered 2004, most likely used by China to target the West

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ICS

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Industrial Control System, runs large scale industry, such as factories, to pipelines

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ISAC

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Information Sharing and Analysis Center, Hub to share information with an industry for critical infrastructure

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Integrity Attack

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An attack for changing data, rather than extracting it

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ICANN

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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, 1998 Nonprofit took over US Gov. control of DNS and Internet Policy

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ITU

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1865 Founded UN Agency in charge of Telecommunications (International Telecommunications Union)

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IETF

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Internet Engineering Task Force, developed standards and protocols, part of ISOC

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ISOC

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Internet Society, group of agencies in charge of developing internet policy

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NIST

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US Commerce Department, develops industry standards

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Operation Orchard

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2007 Israeli strike on Syrian Nuclear Research

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Operation Shady RAT

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2006 Series of Cyber attacks, comprised confidential information of 70+ major firms and agencies

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Red team

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Simulated attack group of white hat hackers

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Root access

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Ability to change every file on a system

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SIPRNet

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Secure Internet Protocol Router Network, US Military Classified INTRAnet, uses common Internet Protocol

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SCADA

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Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Industrial Control System to manage sensors and control large facilities

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TOR

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The Onion Router, used to provide online anonymity, developed by US Gov. now volunteer run

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SQL

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Structured Query Language, used to access and manage databases in servers

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SQL Injection

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Using a website to pass SQL code to gain access to a database and the information within

65
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typosquatting

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registering domain names that may be close to the original (fisney instead of disney)

66
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Watering Hole

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Attack on a specific group by compromising website used frequently by members of that group

67
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Zero Day

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Exploits a previously unknown vulnerability, “zeroth day of awareness”

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