Hacker warfare - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Phishing fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data, by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Smishing When someone tries to trick you into giving them your private information via a text or SMS message. Vishing Using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward Spam irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent to a large number...

Level 3 Technical Level IT: CYBER SECURITY J/507/6435 Unit 6 Network and cyber security administration Mark scheme June 2019 Version: 1.0 Final *196AJ/MS* Mark schemes are prepared by the Lead Assessment Writer and considered, together with the relevant questions, by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made at the standardisation events which all associates participate in and is the...

ARP poisoning - ARP poisoning refers to flooding the target machine's ARP cache with forged entries. Grey box testing - A combination of black box and white box testing that gives a full inspection of the system, simulating both outside and inside attacks NTP Enumeration - NTP stands for Network Time Protocol and its role is to ensure that the networked computer clocks are synchronized. NTP enumeration provides hackers with information about the hosts that are connected to NTP server a...

Authentication - The process of identifying a user's identity, making sure that they can have access to the system and/or files. This can be accomplished either by a password, retina scan, or fingerprint scan, sometimes even a combination of the above. Botnet - A network of computers that have been infected with a virus, and now are working continuously in order to create security breaches. DDoS - Using multiple hosts and users, hackers bombard a website with a tidal wave of requests t...

Because attackers break into systems for various reasons, it is important for information security professionals to understand how malicious hackers exploit systems and the probable reasons behind the attacks. True False Information security refers to or information and information systems that use, store, and transmit information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Duplicating / saving Compiling / securing Protecting / safeguarding Imaging / shielding...

Because attackers break into systems for various reasons, it is important for information security professionals to understand how malicious hackers exploit systems and the probable reasons behind the attacks. True False Information security refers to or information and information systems that use, store, and transmit information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Duplicating / saving Compiling / securing Protecting / safeguarding Imaging / shielding...

Phishing - fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data, by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Smishing - When someone tries to trick you into giving them your private information via a text or SMS message. Vishing - Using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward Spam - irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent to a large number of Inte...

Phishing - fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data, by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Smishing - When someone tries to trick you into giving them your private information via a text or SMS message. Vishing - Using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward Spam - irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent to a large number of Interne...

Level 3 Technical Level IT: CYBER SECURITY J/507/6435 Unit 6 Network and cyber security administration Mark scheme June 2019 Version: 1.0 Final *196AJ/MS* Mark schemes are prepared by the Lead Assessment Writer and considered, together with the relevant questions, by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made at the standardisation events which all associates participate in and is the...

Level 3 Technical Level IT: CYBER SECURITY J/507/6435 Unit 6 Network and cyber security administration Mark scheme June 2019 Version: 1.0 Final *196AJ/MS* Mark schemes are prepared by the Lead Assessment Writer and considered, together with the relevant questions, by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made at the standardisation events which all associates participate in and is the...