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Adam works as a Security Administrator for Umbrella Technology Inc. He reported a breach in security to his senior members, stating that "security defenses has been breached and exploited for 2 weeks by hackers." The hackers had accessed and downloaded 50,000 addresses containing customer credit cards and passwords. Umbrella Technology was looking to law enforcement officials to protect their intellectual property.

The intruder entered through an employee's home machine, which was connected to Umbrella Technology's corporate VPN network. The application called BEAST Trojan was used in the attack to open a "back door" allowing the hackers undetected access. The security breach was discovered when customers complained about the usage of their credit cards without their knowledge.

The hackers were traced back to Shanghai, China through e-mail address evidence. The credit card information was sent to that same e-mail address. The passwords allowed the hackers to access Umbrella Technology's network from a remote location, posing as employees.

Which of the following actions can Adam perform to prevent such attacks from occurring in future?

John is a malicious attacker. He illegally accesses the server of We-are-secure Inc. He then places a backdoor in the We-are-secure server and alters its log files. Which of the following steps of malicious hacking includes altering the server log files?

Which of the following are based on malicious code?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.

Which of the following actions is performed by the netcat command given below?

nc 55555 < /etc/passwd

In which of the following attacks does an attacker create the IP packets with a forged (spoofed) source IP address with the purpose of concealing the identity of the sender or impersonating another computing system?

Which of the following netcat parameters makes netcat a listener that automatically restarts itself when a connection is dropped?

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He is assigned a project to test the security of www.weare-secure.com. He is working on the Linux operating system. He wants to sniff the we-are-secure network and intercept a conversation between two employees of the company through session hijacking. Which of the following tools will John use to accomplish the task?

Victor works as a professional Ethical Hacker for SecureEnet Inc. He has been assigned a job to test an image, in which some secret information is hidden, using Steganography. Victor performs the following techniques to accomplish the task:

1. Smoothening and decreasing contrast by averaging the pixels of the area where significant color transitions occurs.

2. Reducing noise by adjusting color and averaging pixel value.

3. Sharpening, Rotating, Resampling, and Softening the image.

Which of the following Steganography attacks is Victor using?

Which of the following statements about Ping of Death attack is true?

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______ is a free Unix subsystem that runs on top of Windows.