Which of the following refers to the exploitation of a valid computer session to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system?
Which of the following keyloggers cannot be detected by anti-virus or anti-spyware products?
You work as a professional Ethical Hacker. You are assigned a project to test the security of www.weare- secure.com. You somehow enter in we-are-secure Inc. main server, which is Windows based.
While you are installing the NetCat tool as a backdoor in the we-are-secure server, you see the file credit.dat having the list of credit card numbers of the company's employees. You want to transfer the credit.dat file in your local computer so that you can sell that information on the internet in the good price.
However, you do not want to send the contents of this file in the clear text format since you do not want that the Network Administrator of the we-are-secure Inc. can get any clue of the hacking attempt. Hence, you decide to send the content of the credit.dat file in the encrypted format.
What steps should you take to accomplish the task?
Which of the following penetration testing phases involves gathering data from whois, DNS, and network scanning, which helps in mapping a target network and provides valuable information regarding the operating system and applications running on the systems?
Adam works as a Security Administrator for Umbrella Inc. A project has been assigned to him to test the network security of the company. He created a webpage to discuss the progress of the tests with employees who were interested in following the test. Visitors were allowed to click on a company's icon to mark the progress of the test. Adam successfully embeds a keylogger. He also added some statistics on the webpage.
The firewall protects the network well and allows strict Internet access.
How was security compromised and how did the firewall respond?