Ec council ctia - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Daniel is a professional hacker whose aim is to attack a system to steal data and money for profit. He performs hacking to obtain confidential data such as social security numbers, personally identifiable information (PII) of an employee, and credit card information. After obtaining confidential data, he further sells the information on the black market to make money. Daniel comes under which of the following types of threat actor? A. Industrial spies B. State-sponsored hackers C. Inside...

01. In which of the following attacks does the attacker exploit vulnerabilities in a computer application before the software developer can release a patch for them? a) Active online attack b) Zero-day attack c) Distributed network attack d) Advanced persistent attack correct answers b) Zero-day attack 02. A network administrator working in an ABC organization collected log files generated by a traffic monitoring system, which may not seem to have useful information, but after performi...