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ASCII - ANSWER: a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each
letter assigned a number from 0 to 127 and can represent up to 256 characters
Unicode - ANSWER: A character code that enables most of the languages of the
world to be symbolized with a special character identification.
UTF-8 - ANSWER: A variable-length coding scheme that uses seven bits for common
ASCII characters, but uses 16-bit Unicode as necessary.
Shadow file - ANSWER: The file that stores the encrypted password in a system.
SPF - ANSWER: Sender Policy Framework - This framework is an email validation
system that is used to prevent spam and specifies which systems can send email
through a company's mail servers.
SGID - ANSWER: Set Group ID - Sets the group of the running program to the group
of the file. It's indicated by an s in the group execute bit position in the permission
string, as in rwxr-sr-x. New files will inherit the group ownership of the directory,
rather than be based on the user's current default group.
SUID - ANSWER: Set User ID - Sets the program to run with the permissions of
whoever owns the file rather than with the permissions of the user who runs the
program, allowing it to run with administrators rights even if the person calling the
file is not an admin.
Search for SUID or SGID files - ANSWER: "find / -perm -4000" for SUID, "-2000" for
SGID
IPv4 - ANSWER: Dominant protocol for routing traffic on the Internet, specifying "to"
and "from" addresses using a dotted decimal such as "122.45.255.0" and is 32-bit
IPv6 - ANSWER: Provides a large number of new addresses to route Internet traffic,
using "from" and "to" addresses written as colon-hexadecimal notation, such as
"fe80::42:acff:feaa:1bf0" and is 128-bit
DNS Records - ANSWER: Instructions in authoritative DNS servers that given info on
the domain, including the IP and how to handle requests for the domain
A record - ANSWER: Connects domain names to IPv4 addresses, input of domain
name
AAAA record - ANSWER: Connects a domain name to a