WGU C172 - Chapter 7: Network Security Questions and Answers Solved Correctly

ocial Engineering - A way for an intruder to obtain enough information from people to gain access to the network. Password Cracking - The attacker tries to guess the user's password. Dictionary Attack - Uses known passwords and variations (lower and uppercase letters) Brute Force Attack - Uses every possible combination of characters for the password. Packet Sniffing - Technique in which the contents of data packets are watched. SSH - Secure Shell, packets that pass across an SSH connection are encrypted SSL - Secure Socket Layer, encryption used by web servers. SFTP - A secure version of the File Transfer Protocol Buffer Overflow - Happens when a program tries to put more data into a buffer than it was configured to hold. netstat -a - Used to display the ports currently open on the Windows operating system. netstat -b - Shows the executable involved in creating the connection or listening port. nmap - A Linux port scanner.