ETHICAL HACKING ESSENTIALS - MODULE 6 TERMS & DEFINITIONS EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!

active sniffing - ANSWER sniffing that is used to sniff a switch-based network and involves injecting Address Resolution Packets (ARP) into the network to flood the switch's Content Addressable Memory (CAM) table, which keeps track of host-port connections MAC flooding - ANSWER An attack that sends numerous packets to a switch, each of which has a different source MAC address, in an attempt to use up the memory on the switch. If this is successful, the switch will change state to failopen mode. DHCP starvation - ANSWER the attack is a process of inundating DHCP servers with fake DHCP requests and using all the available IP addresses resulting in a denial-of-service attack ARP spoofing - ANSWER An attack in which the attacker's MAC address is associated with the IP address of a target's device. ARP poisoning - ANSWER An attack that corrupts the ARP cache. MAC spoofing - ANSWER Occurs when an attacker masks their own MAC address to pretend they have the MAC address of another device DNS poisoning - ANSWER An attack that substitutes DNS addresses so that the computer is automatically redirected to an attacker's device. wireshark - ANSWER A popular network analysis tool to capture network packets and display them at a granular level for real-time or offline analysis Denial-of-Service (DoS) - ANSWER an attack on a computer or network that reduces, restricts, or prevents accessibility of system resources to its legitimate users Ping of Death Attack - ANSWER Type of attack in which a large ICMP packet is sent to overflow the remote host's buffer. This usually causes the remote host to reboot or hang. Smurf Attack - ANSWER An attack that broadcasts a ping request to computers yet changes the address so that all responses are sent to the victim. SYN Flood Attack - ANSWER Type of DoS attack in which the attacker sends multiple SYN messages initializing TCP connections with a target host Fragmentation Attack - ANSWER attack that stop a victim from being able to re-assemble fragmented packets by flooding the target system with TCP or UDP fragments, resulting in reduced performance Multi-Vector Attack - ANSWER The attacker uses combinations of volumetric, protocol, and application layer attacks to take down the target system or service Peer-to-Peer Attack - ANSWER Form of DDoS attack in which the attacker exploits a number of bugs in peer-to-peer servers to initiate a DDoS attack Permanent Denial-of-Service Attack - ANSWER also known as phlashing, refers to attacks that cause irreversible damage to system hardware Distributed Reflection Denial-of-Service (DRDoS) Attack - ANSWER also known as a s