A penetration-testing team needs to test the security of electronic records in a company's office. Per the terms of engagement, the penetration test is to be conducted after hours and should not include circumventing the alarm or performing destructive entry. During outside reconnaissance, the team sees an open door from an adjoining building. Which of the following would be allowed under the terms of the engagement?
A penetration tester is performing reconnaissance for a web application assessment. Upon investigation, the tester reviews the robots.txt file for items of interest.
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Select the tool the penetration tester should use for further investigation.
Select the two entries in the robots.txt file that the penetration tester should recommend for removal.
A penetration tester runs a vulnerability scan that identifies several issues across numerous customer hosts. The executive report outlines the following information:
Server High-severity vulnerabilities
1. Development sandbox server 32
2. Back office file transfer server 51
3. Perimeter network web server 14
4. Developer QA server 92
The client is concerned about the availability of its consumer-facing production application. Which of the following hosts should the penetration tester select for additional manual testing?
For a penetration test engagement, a security engineer decides to impersonate the IT help desk. The security engineer sends a phishing email containing an urgent request for users to change their passwords and a link to
https://example.com/index.html. The engineer has designed the attack so that once the users enter the credentials, the index.html page takes the credentials and then forwards them to another server that the security engineer is controlling. Given the following information:
Which of the following lines of code should the security engineer add to make the attack successful?
A penetration tester gains access to a host but does not have access to any type of shell. Which of the following is the best way for the tester to further enumerate the host and the environment in which it resides?
