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.

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• 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 intrusion relies on the intruder's ability to trick people into breaking normal security procedures.
• An intruder might install this on a networked computer to collect user ids and passwords from other machines on the network.
• This is a compromised Web site that is being used as an attack launch point in a denialof-service attack.
• 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.
• This is an attack on a computer system that takes advantage of a particular vulnerability that the system offers to intruders.
• 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.
• This is an assault on the integrity of a security system in which the attacker substitutes a section of cipher text (encrypted text) with a different section that looks like (but is not the same as) the one removed.
• This enables users of a basically unsecure public network such as the Internet to securely and privately exchange data and money through the use of a public and a private cryptographic key pair that is obtained and shared through a trusted authority.
• What "layer" of an e-mail message should you consider when evaluating e-mail security?