Edvisor quiz3 - Encrpt & Social engg

When an attacker calls an organization’s help desk and persuades them to reset a password for them due to the help desk employee’s trust and willingness to help, what type of attack succeeded?

• A human Trojan

• Social engineering

• Phishing

• Whaling

What type of encryption should you use on the file servers for the proprietary data, and how might you secure the data when it is in motion?

• TLS at rest and AES in motion

• AES at rest and TLS in motion

• VPN at rest and TLS in motion

• DES at rest and AES in motion

Which one of the following malware types uses built-in propagation mechanisms that exploit system vulnerabilities to spread?

• Trojan horse

• Worm

• Logic bomb

• Virus

What encryption algorithm would provide strong protection for data stored on a USB thumb drive?

• TLS

• SHA1

• AES

• DES

In Transport Layer Security, what type of key is used to encrypt the actual content of communications between a web server and a client?

• Shared session key

• Client’s public key

• Server’s public key

• Server’s private key