Week 5 Technical

Question 1

What is a MAC Address?

Answer 1

A media access control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address in communications within a network segment.

Question 2

Can a MAC address be used to attribute a activity to a specific device ? And how reliable is it ?

Answer 2

Yes & No – We know it can be stamped on a physical NIC however it can be spoofed.

Question 3

How can you find the operating system (OS) used from a network capture?

Answer 3

The User-agent is a way over for the web browser to tell the web server who and what it is so the web server can serve the right page.