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SANS GISCP and GIACAck Piggybacking - answerThe Practice of sending an ACK inside another packet going
to the same destination
Address resolution protocol - answerProtocol for mapping an IP address to a physical
machine address that is recognized on the local network.
A table, usually called the ARP cache, is used to maintain a correlation between each
MAC and its corresponding IP address
What are the five threat vectors? - answerOutside attack from network
Outsider attack from telephone
Insider attack from local network
insider attack from local system
attack from malicious code
What are some external threat concerns? - answer-Malicious code might execute
destructive overwrite to hard disks
-Malicious mas mailing code might expose sensitive information to the internet
- web server compromise might expose organization to ridicule
- Web server compromise might expose customer private data
What are some ways to bypass firewall protections? - answer- Worms and Wireless
- modems
- tunnel anything through HTTP
- social engineering
What is social engineering? - answer- attempt to manipulate or trick a person into
providing information or access
- bypass network security by exploiting humans
- vector is often outside attack by telephone or visitor inside
What is Hping? - answer- a TCP version of ping
- sends custom TCP packets to a host and listens for replies
- enables port scanning and spoofing simultaneously
What is a group? - answerA group means multiple iterations won't matter. If you encrypt
with a key, then re-encrypt, it's the same as using one key.
What is a port scan? - answer- common backdoor to open a port
- port scan scans for open ports on remote host
,- scans 0 - 65,535 twice. TCP and UDP
What is nmap? - answerNetwork scanner.
What are nmap scanning techniques? - answer- Full open
- half open (stealth scan)
- UDP
- Ping
What is network stumbler? - answer- free windows based wireless scanner for 802.1b
- detects access point settings
- supports GSP integration
- identifies networks as encrypted or unencrypted
What is Kismet? - answer- Free linux WLAN analysis tool
- completely passive, cannot be detected
- supports advanced GPS integration and mapping features
- used for wardriving, WLAN vulerability assessment
What is Wardriving? - answerGoing around with equipment to detect wireless networks
What is War Dialing? - answer- trying to ID modems in a telephone exchange that may
be susceptible to compromise
What are some Pen Test techniques? - answer- War dialing
- war driving
- Sniffing
- eavesdropping
- dumpster diving
- social engineering
What is IDS? - answer- intrusion detection system
- it reports attacks against monitored systems/networks
What is IDS not? - answer- not a replacement for firewalls, hardening, strong policies, or
other DiD methods
- low maintenance
- inexpensive
What are the four types of events reported by IDS? - answer- true positive
- false positive
- true negative
- false negative
How does IDS signature analysis work? - answer- rules indicate criteria in packets that
represent events of interest
,- rules are applied to packets as they are received
- alerts are created when matches are found
How does anomaly analysis work? - answer- flags anomalous conditions in traffic on the
network
- requires understanding on what is normal
- bases good traffic as a baseline
What is deep packet inspection? - answer- slow, requires stateful data tracking
- inspects all fields, including variable-length fields
What is shallow packet inspection? - answer- fast, with little fidelity
- examines header information and limited payload data
What is Honeyd? - answer- low interaction production honeypot
- network daemon that can simulate other hosts
- each host can appear as a different OS
What is a netcat listener? - answer- simplest form of a research honeypot
- useful in identifying nature of TCP scans, allows attacker to complete 3-way
handshake
- listens on a defined port, logs incoming requests for analysis
What are some disadvantages of honeypots? - answer- improper deployment can
increase attack risk - if production systems aren't sufficiently protected, they can be
vulnerable from a honeypot
- legal liability
What are some honeypot advantages? - answer- provides insight into the tactics,
motives, and attacker tools
What is a honeypot? - answer- a system resource that has no legitimate purpose or
reason for someone to connect to it
- its purpose is to draw in attackers to understand how they break into a system
What is a proxy or application gateway? - answer- maintains complete TCP connection
state and sequencing through 2 connections
- address translation built-in by virtue of second connection above
What is a stateful firewall? - answerStateful firewalls maintain state of traffic flows
What is No State Inspection ACK flag set? - answerpacket filter firewalls rely on TCP
flags to determine connection state. Attacker can send ACK packets only to bypass
firewall.
What is IDS data normalization? - answer- used by IDS for a baseline before analysis
, - attackers will try to de-normalize traffic to evade detection
- IDS will normalize data for understood protocols
What are NIDS advantages? - answer- provides insight into traffic on the network
- help detect problems with network operations
- provides auditing for other security measures
What are NIDS challenges? - answer- deployment challenges including topology and
access limitations
- analyzing encrypted traffic
- quantity vs. quality of signatures
- performance limitations with extensive analysis techniques
- very costly for proper management
What are some NIDS topology limitations? - answer- switches networks make it difficult
to monitor traffic in promiscuous mode
- topology must be able to support traffic aggregation for monitoring
What is Snort? - answer- open source tool for monitoring
- can be used as a NIDS
- has quick updates and flexibility for custom rules
What is a stateless packet filter? - answerA low end firewall that can quickly be
deployed using existing hardware. They examine packets themselves with no content.
What are some firewall benefits? - answer- protects internal/external systems from
attack
- filters communications based on content
- performs NAT
- encrypts communications for VPN
- logging to aid in intrusion detection
What are some firewall challenges? - answer- application layer attacks may get through
- dialup, VPN, extranet connections may bypass firewalls
What is a firewall? - answerAn appliance that controls access between public internet
and a companies private network, or between a PC NIC and the rest of the PC.
What is a rootkit? - answerA cracking tool inserted into the OS that allows the attacker
to do as they please.
What is alteration of code? - answerWhen someone has compromised the integrity of
data or a program. Allows attackers to create backdoors.
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