Which of the following is NOT one of the recognized virus or malware phases?
Triggering
Execution
Dormant
Stealth
Briefly describe what “blended attack” means with regard to malware.
Match the following with the words that best describe them.
Rootkit; Social engineering;Spyware; Worm;Malicious mobile code;
Backdoor; Bot/Zombie; Cross-site scripting; Zero-day exploits
An injection of malicious code/script into a vulnerable website so that a visitor’s browser will execute it ____________________
Replicating program that propagates over a network ____________________
Lightweight program that is downloaded from a remote system and executed locally with minimal or no user intervention ____________________
An attack/activity that takes advantage of a previously unknown vulnerability ____________________
Mechanism that bypasses normal security to allow unauthorized access ____________________
Program taking over network attached computers to launch hard to trace attacks ____________________
Identify and briefly describe the key characteristic of any one of the primary anti-virus software approaches/generations/forms.
Which of the following is the advanced characteristic of malware which indicates it uses multiple infection vectors?
Polymorphic
Multipartite
Stealth
Metamorphic
# infected systemstimeTRUE / FALSE The graph that a typical worm propagation model creates is a straight, nearly 45o diagonal line similar to this:
What are two categories of “resources” that could be attacked/exhausted as the result of a denial of service attack?
What type of packets could be used for flooding DoS attacks?
ICMP
TCP SYN
UDP
All of the above
Identify and briefly describe an important architectural element/feature that is typically used to make a denial of service attack “Distributed.”
Which of the following most correctly explains the difference between a reflection attack and an amplification attack?
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