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QUESTION: 71

Fake Anti-Virus, is one of the most frequently encountered and persistent threats on the web. This malware uses social engineering to lure users into infected websites with a technique called Search Engine Optimization. Once the Fake AV is downloaded into the user's computer, the software will scare them into believing their system is infected with threats that do not really exist, and then push users to purchase services to clean up the non-existent threats. The Fake AntiVirus will continue to send these annoying and intrusive alerts until a payment is made.

What is the risk of installing Fake AntiVirus?

Victim's Operating System versions, services running and applications installed will be published on Blogs and Forums
Victim's personally identifiable information such as billing address and credit card details, may be extracted and exploited by the attacker
Once infected, the computer will be unable to boot and the Trojan will attempt to format the hard disk
Denial of Service attack will be launched against the infected computer crashing other machines on the connected network

Answer(s): B

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QUESTION: 72

How would you describe an attack where an attacker attempts to deliver the payload over multiple packets over long periods of time with the purpose of defeating simple pattern matching in IDS systems without session reconstruction? A characteristic of this attack would be a continuous stream of small packets.

Session Hijacking
Session Stealing
Session Splicing
Session Fragmentation

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 73

Jake works as a system administrator at Acme Corp. Jason, an accountant of the firm befriends him at the canteen and tags along with him on the pretext of appraising him about potential tax benefits. Jason waits for Jake to swipe his access card and follows him through the open door into the secure systems area. How would you describe Jason's behavior within a security context?

Smooth Talking
Swipe Gating
Tailgating
Trailing

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 74

While performing a ping sweep of a local subnet you receive an ICMP reply of Code 3/Type 13 for all the pings you have sent out.
What is the most likely cause of this?

The firewall is dropping the packets
An in-line IDS is dropping the packets
A router is blocking ICMP
The host does not respond to ICMP packets

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 75

Consider the following code:
URL:http://www.certified.com/search.pl?
text=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
If an attacker can trick a victim user to click a link like this, and the Web application does not validate input, then the victim's browser will pop up an alert showing the users current set of cookies. An attacker can do much more damage, including stealing passwords, resetting your home page, or redirecting the user to another Web site.
What is the countermeasure against XSS scripting?

Create an IP access list and restrict connections based on port number
Replace "<" and ">" characters with "& l t;" and "& g t;" using server scripts
Disable Javascript in IE and Firefox browsers
Connect to the server using HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP

Answer(s): B

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