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Flashcards by Riley Loades, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Riley Loades
almost 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is Phishing? | Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. |
| What are examples of phishing? | Phishing emails usually appear to come from a well-known organization and ask for your personal information such as credit card number, social security number, account number or password. Often times phishing attempts appear to come from sites, services and companies with which you do not even have an account. |
| What is a brute force attack? | A brute force attack is a trial-and-error method used to obtain information such as a user password or personal identification number (PIN). In a brute force attack, automated software is used to generate a large number of consecutive guesses as to the value of the desired data. |
| What are examples of a brute force attack? | The most common and easiest to understand example of the brute-force attack is the dictionary attack to crack the password. In this, attacker uses a password dictionary that contains millions of words that can be used as a password. Then the attacker tries these passwords one by one for authentication. |
| What is a denial of service attack (D Dos) ? | Distributed D Dos attack. A distributed denial-of-service (D Dos) attack occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. Such an attack is often the result of multiple compromised systems (for example, a botnet) flooding the targeted system with traffic. |
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