Types of Attack

The most common session-hijacking is man in the middle attack

• True

• False

Which of the following best describes session hacking

• Taking over a target machine via a trojan horse

• taking control of the login session

• Taking Control of the communication link between two machines.

• Taking control of a target machine remotely

Smurf attack is a popular DoS attack

• True

• False

What is the danger inherent in IP spoofing attacks?

• Many firewalls do not examine packets that seems to come from within the network

• There are very damaging to target systems

• Many of these attacks open the door for other attacks

• they can be difficult to stop

To be protected against Ping of death attacks ensure that all operating systems are patched

• True

• False

Which of the following is the best defnition for IP spoofing?

• Rerouting packets to a different IP addess

• Setting up a fake website that appears to be a different site

• sending packets that are misconfigured

• Sending a packet to be appears to come from a trusted IP address

A _____ tries to formulate a web resource occupied or busy its users by flooding the URL of the victim with unlimited requests than the server can handle.

• MiTM attack

• Phishing attack

• Website attack

• DoS attack

________________ are required because HTTP uses a lot of diverse TCP connections, so, the web server needs a means to distinguish every user’s connections.

• Internet

• Network

• Sessions

• Hijacking

___________ is a type of DoS threats to overload a server as it sends a large number of requests requiring resources for handling & processing.

• Network Layer DoS

• Physical Layer DoS

• Application Layer DoS

• Transport Layer DoS

The point of hijacking a connection is to exploit trust and gain access to a system

• True

• False