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Question 1

What are zero day attacks?

Answer 1

They are vulnerabilities that we do not know about in which the bad guys find first and exploit our systems.

Question 2

What is spoofing?

Answer 2

Pretending to be something that you aren’t.

E.g. - MAC address spoofing, IP address spoofing, phone number spoofing

Question 3

What are dictionary attacks?

Answer 3

When people use common words as passwords.

Question 4

What are rainbow tables?

Answer 4

Increases the speed of a brute force attack by saving individual possible passwords as a separate hash and then using deductive logic to find the correct password.

Question 5

What is a zombie attack?

Answer 5

When a computer connected to the internet has been compromised and can be used to perform malicious tasks under remote direction.