Network Security Flashcards

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What is social engenering ?

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It means to trick others into revealing their personal data by posing a trusted source

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What is data interception ?

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. When data packets have been intercepted by a third party and copied to a location that is different to the intended destination

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What is a denial of service attack ?

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.When computers repeatedly sends requests to the server to overload the system
. The purpose of this is to slow down the system and make a web site offline temporarily

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What is an SQL injection ?

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.When a malicious SQL commands is entered into a data input box

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