Lesson 7

Question 1

Interception attack

Answer 1

Intercepting network traffic and stealing vulnerable information

Question 2

Malicious packet sniffing

Answer 2

Capture and alter data in transit.

Question 3

Back door attack

Answer 3

Flawed or “left open” doors (physical or digital) for actors to sneak into

Question 4

DoS attack

Answer 4

Targets a network and floods it with traffic

Question 5

The three Cs of working on an attack

Answer 5

Command, control, communications

Question 6

DoS meaning

Answer 6

Denial of service

Question 7

DDoS meaning

Answer 7

Distributed denial of service attack (mult locations)

Question 8

SYN flood attack

Answer 8

Malicious actor sends an overwhelming amount of SYN packets

Question 9

ICMP Meaning

Answer 9

Internet control measure protocol

Question 10

“Ping of death”

Answer 10

An type of DoS attack where the hacker sends a ICMP Packet over 64kb

Question 11

Network protocol analyzer

Answer 11

Packet sniffer

Question 12

Types of packet sniffers

Answer 12

1. Solarwinds
2. ManageEngine (op manager)
3. Azure network watcher
4. WireShark
5. TCPdump

Question 13

TCPdump

Answer 13

Command line network protocol analyzer

Question 14

Botnet

Answer 14

A collection of computers infected with malware