1.4 Network Attacks

Question 1

Rogus access points

Answer 1

is an access point that has been added to your network without your authorization.

Question 2

wireless evil twin

Answer 2

access point that is designed to look exactly like the access points that are already on your network, but they were put there for a malicious reason

Question 3

Bluejacking

Answer 3

attacker sending an unsolicited message to a victim’s machine, usually this is a mobile phone or tablet, and the attacker is sending this message over Bluetooth

Question 4

Bluesnarfing

Answer 4

when an attacker can access data that’s on your mobile device using the Bluetooth communications channel.

Question 5

wireless disassociation

Answer 5

keeps coming back and disappearing over and over and over again

Question 6

RFID

Answer 6

Radio-Frequency Identification

Question 7

NFC

Answer 7

Near Field Communication

Question 8

on path attack (man in the middle)

Answer 8

an attacker that sits in the middle between two stations and is able to intercept, and in some cases, change that information that’s being sent interactively across the network

Question 9

ARP

Answer 9

Address Resolution Protocol

Question 10

ARP poisoning

Answer 10

manipulating the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) to link a hacker’s MAC address with the IP address of a legitimate device on a local network

Question 11

MAC address

Answer 11

Media Access Control address of a network card

Question 12

STP

Answer 12

Spanning Tree Protocol

Question 13

Denial of Service

Answer 13

causes a service to become unavailable

Question 14

DDos

Answer 14

Distributed Denial of Service

Question 15

what is a DDos

Answer 15

going to use many, many, systems to attack a single service

Question 16

macros

Answer 16

applications have their own way of performing scripts

Question 17

VBA

Answer 17

Visual Basic for Applications

Question 18

threat actor

Answer 18

an entity responsible for an event that has an impact on the safety of another entity

Question 19

APT

Answer 19

advanced persistent threat

Question 20

attack vector

Answer 20

the method that the attacker will use to gain access to your computer or your network