Chapter 6-12 Multiple Choice
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| In NetWare 5.0, TCP/IP replaced ____ as the default protocol. | IPX/SPX
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| In ____, instead of peer-to-peer networks, a client/server model was created in which a server was responsible for authenticating users and giving them access to resources on a network. | Windows NT 3.51
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| LDAP (port ____) is the protocol used to access Novell’s eDirectory, Microsoft Active Directory, and Apple Open Directory. | 389
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| NetBIOS names have a limit of ____ characters | 16
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| NetWare’s ____ is a graphical Java utility for centralized network administration. | ConsoleOne
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| One of the biggest vulnerabilities of NetBIOS systems is a(n) ____, which is an unauthenticated connection to a Windows computer using no logon and password values. | null session
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| The ____ command gives you a quick way to see whether there are any shared resources on a computer or server. | Net view
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| The ____ command is a powerful enumeration tool included with Windows. | Nbtstat
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| The computer names you assign to Windows systems are called ____ names. | NetBIOS
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| The most popular enumeration tool for security testers and hackers alike is the ____ utility, which enables you to find out who is logged in to a *nix system with one simple command. | Finger
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| The most recent version of Novell OS is called ____. | Novell Open Enterprise Server
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| The open-source descendant of Nessus is called ____. | OpenVAS
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| Windows 95 uses the ____ file system. | FAT16
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| Windows 98 introduced the ____ file system. | FAT32
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| Windows NT 3.51 uses the ____ file system. | NTFS
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| With ____, you can have your desktop computer or laptop start in both Windows and Linux. | Grand Unified Bootloader
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| ____ implemented Windows File Protection to prevent core system files from being overwritten. | Windows XP Professional
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| ____ is a system process that runs on Windows OSs to facilitate the exchange of network data. | NetDDE
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| ____ is an enhancement to NDS (NetWare Directory Services). | eDirectory
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| ____ is an excellent GUI tool for managing Windows OSs and is capable of displaying graphical representations of several areas. | Hyena
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| A common Linux rootkit is ____. | Linux Rootkit 5
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| Complete instructions for MBSA are available from the MBSA Help interface or the ____ site. | Microsoft Security Tools Web
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| Early Windows OSs communicated with each other by using ____. | NetBIOS
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| For a Windows computer to be able to access a *nix resource, ____ must be enabled on both systems. | CIFS
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| If the LRK5 rootkit is installed on a Linux computer, entering the Trojaned ____ command allows the attacker’s processes to continue running, even though the Linux administrator thinks all processes were killed. | Killall
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| MBSA has its origins in the ____ scanner. | HFNetChk
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| NetBIOS is not a protocol; it usually works with ____, a fast, efficient protocol that requires little configuration. | NetBEUI
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| NetBIOS over TCP/IP is called ____ in Windows 2000 Server. | NBT
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| NetBIOS over TCP/IP is called ____ in Windows Server 2003. | NetBT
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| Red Hat and Fedora Linux use the ____ command to update and manage RPM packages. | yum
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| SELinux contains several features and modules that use ____, an OS security mechanism that enforces access rules based on privileges for interactions between processes, files, and users. | Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
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| SMB usually runs on top of NetBIOS, NetBEUI, or ____. | TCP/IP
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| The Conficker worm took advantage of a vulnerability in ____ to run arbitrary code on susceptible hosts. | RPC
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| The Trojan program called Sheepshank makes HTTP GET requests over port ____. | 80
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| The best way to protect a network from SMB attacks is to make sure routers filter out ports 137 to 139 and ____. | 445
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| To determine whether a system is vulnerable to an RPC-related issue, the best tool is ____. | MBSA
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| Trusted Computer Solutions____ program is used to tighten Linux system security configuration by using templates. | Security Blanket
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| Windows Server 2003 and 2008 ____ are used to authenticate user accounts, so they contain much of the information that attackers want to access. | domain controllers
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| ____ is a client/server technology designed to manage patching and updating systems software from the network. | Software Update Services (SUS)
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| ____ is an interprocess communication mechanism that allows a program running on one host to run code on a remote host. | RPC
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| ____ is an open-source implementation of CIFS. | Samba
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| A device that performs more than one function (e.g., printing and faxing) is called a(n) ____. | MFD
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| A(n) ____ operating system can be a small program developed specifically for use with embedded systems, or it can be a stripped-down version of an OS commonly used on general-purpose computers. | embedded
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| A(n) ____ system may be used when automation is critical. | SCADA
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| An embedded OS certified to run multiple levels of classification (such as unclassified, secret, and top secret) on the same CPU without leakage between levels is called ____. | MILS
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| Disgruntled employees might install a(n) ____ in company computers’ flash memory before they leave a company and later use it to gain access to the corporate network. | BIOS-based rootkit
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| Embedded Linux is an example of a(n) ____ OS used in a multitude of industrial, medical, and consumer items. | monolithic
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| For sensitive embedded systems that need only a fraction of the features offered by other kernels, the risk of vulnerabilities might outweigh the benefits, and a(n) ____ kernel might be most suitable. | proprietary
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| If a(n) ____ is compromised, attackers might be able to gain complete access to network resources. | router
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| Many viruses, worms, Trojans, and other attack vectors take advantage of ____code. | shared
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| OSs that use a(n) ____ sacrifice flexibility for simplicity and fewer hardware resources. | microkernel
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| One reason that some vendors of embedded OSs are using ____ software more is that the cost of developing and patching an OS is shared by the entire community. | open-source
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| One type of specialized embedded OS is a(n) ____, typically used in devices such as programmable thermostats, appliance controls, and even spacecraft. | RTOS
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| Originally, ____ were used to perform routing and switching. | general purpose computers
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| Rootkits that pose the biggest threat to any OS are those that infect a device’s ____. | firmware
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| Software residing on a chip is commonly referred to as ____. | firmware
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| The ____ Linux kernel was designed to offer the most flexibility and support for sophisticated features. | monolithic
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| The ____ worm spread by exploiting outdated or poorly configured router OSs that contained easy-to-guess passwords. | psyb0t
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| What is the collective name for embedded versions of Windows Enterprise OSs, such as XP Professional, Windows Vista Business and Ultimate, and Windows 7 Ultimate and Professional? | Windows Embedded Enterprise
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| Which of the following could be considered the biggest security threat for an organization? | employees
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| Which of the following is a software flaw that would cause the system to suddenly stop or fail when the clock struck midnight on the eve of the past millennium? | Y2K
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| Wind River produces an open-source Linux OS for embedded systems and an OS microkernel extension called ____. | RTLinux
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| All CFML tags begin with “____”. | CF
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| ColdFusion uses its own proprietary tags written in ____. | CFML
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| Connecting to a Microsoft Active Directory Service database with OLE DB requires using ____ as the provider. | ADSDSOOBJECT
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| Connecting to a MySQL database with OLE DB requires using ____ as the provider. | MySQLProv
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| Connecting to a VSAM database with OLE DB requires using ____ as the provider. | SNAOLEDB
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| Connecting to an MS SQL Server database with OLE DB requires using ____ as the provider. | SQLOLEDB
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| In a(n) ____ flaw, a Web browser might carry out code sent from a Web site. | cross-site scripting
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| One of the best Web sites to find tools for hacking Web applications is ____. | http://packetstormsecurity.org
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| SQL ____ involves the attacker supplying SQL commands when prompted to fill in a Web application field. | injection
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| The JavaScript getElementByld() function is a method defined by the ____ Document Object Model (DOM). | W3C
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| The ____ Search page is an excellent starting point when investigating VBScript vulnerabilities. | Microsoft Security Bulletin
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| The column tag in CFML is ____. | "<CFCOL>"
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| To check whether a CGI program works, you should save the program to the ____ directory of your Web server, and then enter the URL in your Web browser. | cgi-bin
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| Visual Basic Script (VBScript) is a scripting language developed by ____. | Microsoft
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| Web servers use the ____ element in an HTML document to allow customers to submit information to the Web server. | <form>
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| ____ is a standard database access method developed by the SQLAccess Group. | ODBC
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| ____ is one of the best tools for scanning the Web for systems with CGI vulnerabilities. | Cgiscan.c
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| ____ is the interface that describes how a Web server passes data to a Web browser. | CGI
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| ____ represent(s) a comment in SQL. | Double hyphens (--)
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| ____ was originally used primarily on UNIX systems, but is used more widely now on many platforms, such as Macintosh and Windows. | PHP
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| ____, developed by Microsoft, is a set of interfaces that enable applications to access data stored in a database management system. | OLE DB
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| A(n) ____ is a transceiver that connects to a network via an Ethernet cable; it bridges the wireless LAN with the wired network. | access point (AP)
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| Each frequency band contains ____; if they overlap, interference could occur. | channels
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| In 802.11, an addressable unit is called a ____. | station (STA)
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| In 802.1X, a(n) ____ is the wireless user attempting access to a WLAN. | supplicant
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| In a WPAN, the maximum distance allowed between each device is usually ____ meters. | 10
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| One of the default SSIDs used by D-Link is ____. | default
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| One of the default SSIDs used by Linksys is ____. | linksys
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| The 802.11 standard applies to the Physical layer of the OSI model, which deals with wireless connectivity issues of fixed, portable, and moving stations in a local area, and the Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer of the ____. | Data Link layer
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| The ____ band is used by commercial AM radio stations. | medium frequency (MF)
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| The ____ standard can achieve a throughput of 54 Mbps. | 802.11g
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| The ____ standard has improvements to address the problem of interference. | 802.11e
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| The ____ standard, also referred to as Wi-Fi, operates in the 2.4 GHz range with an increased throughput from 1 or 2 Mbps to 11 Mbps. | 802.11b
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| The default SSID used by Cisco is ____. | Tsunami
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| WPA improves encryption by using ____. | TKIP
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| ____ Project 802 was developed to create LAN and WAN standards. | IEEE
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| ____ defines how data is placed on a carrier signal. | Modulation
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| ____ is a freeware tool written for Windows that enables you to detect WLANs using 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g. | NetStumbler
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| ____ is a product for conducting wardriving attacks written by Mike Kershaw. This product is free and runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and even Linux PDAs. | Kismet
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| ____ is an enhancement to PPP. | EAP
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| ____ is the most popular type of WLAN technology. | Spread spectrum
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| ____ is the tool most hackers wanting to access WEP-enabled WLANs use. | AirCrack NG
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| ____ uses TLS to authenticate the server to the client but not the client to the server. | PEAP
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| ____ is a scripting language for Windows and Linux that performs repetitive tasks, such as password cracking. | EXPECT
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| ____ is the original password-cracking program now used by many government agencies to test for password strength. | L0phtcrack
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| A certificate contains a unique serial number and must follow the ____ standard that describes the makings of a certificate. | X.509
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| A famous encryption device was the ____ machine developed by Arthur Scherbius and used by the Germans during World War II. | Enigma
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| After DES was in service for many years, NIST decided that a new standard was in order: ____. | Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
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| Even though DEA uses 64-bit encryption, only ____ bits are effectively being used. | 56
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| In a ____ attack, after an attacker has access to a password file, he or she can run a password-cracking program that uses a dictionary of known words or passwords as an input file. | dictionary
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| In a ____ attack, an attacker uses a password-cracking program to guess passwords by attempting every possible combination of letters. | brute force
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| In a ____ attack, the attacker has access to plaintext and ciphertext and the ability to choose which messages to encrypt. | chosen-plaintext
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| In a ____ attack, the attacker has access to the ciphertext to be decrypted and to the resulting plaintext. | chosen-ciphertext
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| In a ____ attack, the attacker has messages in both encrypted form and decrypted forms. | known plaintext
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| In a ____ attack, the attacker has the ciphertext of several messages that were encrypted with the same encryption algorithm but has no access to the plaintext, so he or she must try to figure out the key used to encrypt the data. | ciphertext-only
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| RSA was developed by three MIT professors:Ronald L.Rivest, ____, and Leonard M. Adleman. | Adi Shamir
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| The Book of Jeremiah was written using a cipher, or key, known as ____. | atbash
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| The Purple Machine code was broken by ____, a cryptanalyst for the U.S. government and known as the “Father of U.S. Cryptanalysis.” | William Frederick Friedman
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| The ____ algorithm does not provide encryption but is used to establish the secret key between two parties. | Diffie-Hellman
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| The program ____ is one of the best programs available today for cracking password files. | John the Ripper
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| ____ is a hashing algorithm developed by Rivest in 1991. | MD5
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| ____ is an asymmetrical algorithm that can be used to encrypt data, create a digital signature, and exchange secret keys. | ElGamal
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| ____ is used for encryption as well as digital signatures and key exchange. | ECC
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| ____ means that a user can’t deny he or she sent a message to a recipient, and the receiver of a message can’t deny ever receiving the message. | Nonrepudiation
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| ____ refers to verifying the sender or receiver (or both) is who he or she claims to be. | Authentication
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| ____ was developed by Phil Zimmerman as a free e-mail encryption program that allowed typical users to encrypt e-mail messages. | PGP
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| ____, developed by Bruce Schneier, is a block cipher that operates on 64-bit blocks of plaintext. | Blowfish
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| ____, developed by Xuejia Lai and James Massey, is a block cipher that operates on 64-bit blocks of plaintext. | International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA)
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