Chapter 12 – Internet and World Wide Web Security
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Which of the following is a highly secure public facility in which backbones have interconnected data lines and routers that exchange routing and traffic data?
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NAP
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What makes IP spoofing possible for computers on the Internet?
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the lack of authentication
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What type of attack exploits a lack of bounds checking on the size of data stored in an array?
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buffer overflow
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What type of attack involves plaintext scripting that affects database?
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SQL injection
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What type of attack displays false information masquerading as legitimate data?
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Phishing
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Which variation on phishing modifies the user's host file to redirect traffic?
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Pharming
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What is a zone transfer?
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updating a secondary DNS server
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What type of DNS configuration prevents internal zone information from being stored on an Internet- accessible server?
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split-DNS architecture
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Which of the following is a top-level digital certificate in the PKI chain?
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Trust anchor
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Which aspect of hardening a Windows Web server allows you to resist access to the web server based on IP address?
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access control
