This is an attack on a computer system that takes advantage of a particular vulnerability that the system offers to intruders.

Related MCQs

• The developers of an operating system or vendor application might issue this to prevent intruders from taking advantage of a weakness in their programming.
• This is a compromised Web site that is being used as an attack launch point in a denialof-service attack.
• This is a type of network security attack in which the intruder takes control of a communication between two entities and masquerades as one of them.
• This is a series of messages sent by someone attempting to break into a computer to learn which computer network services the computer provides.
• In what type of attack does an intruder manipulate a URL in such a way that the Web server executes or reveals the contents of a file anywhere on the server, including those lying outside the document root directory?
• This type of attack may cause additional damage by sending data containing codes designed to trigger specific actions - for example, changing data or disclosing confidential information.
• Which of the following is an advantage of anomaly detection?
• Today, many Internet businesses and users take advantage of cryptography based on this approach.
• __________ is an electronic or paper log used to track computer activity.
• This is the name for a group of programmers who are hired to expose errors or security holes in new software or to find out why a computer network's security is being broken.