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    The document contains questions and answers about various topics in network security. It discusses types of attacks like denial of service attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and ransomware. It also defines terms related to security like biometrics, fuzzing, script kiddies, and the differences between a virus and worm, TACACS and RADIUS, and authentication and authorization. The final question discusses distributed denial of service attacks.

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    The document contains questions and answers about various topics in network security. It discusses types of attacks like denial of service attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and ransomware. It also defines terms related to security like biometrics, fuzzing, script kiddies, and the differences between a virus and worm, TACACS and RADIUS, and authentication and authorization. The final question discusses distributed denial of service attacks.

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    The document contains questions and answers about various topics in network security. It discusses types of attacks like denial of service attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and ransomware. It also defines terms related to security like biometrics, fuzzing, script kiddies, and the differences between a virus and worm, TACACS and RADIUS, and authentication and authorization. The final question discusses distributed denial of service attacks.

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    Homework#1.

    Name: ……………………………………….
    Ebtehaj Alharbi
    section: 50371
    …… ID number: …….
    442200617

    • Which two network security solutions can be used to


    mitigate DoS attacks?

    1- Intrusion protection systems.


    2- Antispoofing technologies.

    • An attacker is using a laptop as a rogue access point to


    capture all network traffic from a targeted user. Which
    type of attack is this?

    Man in the middle

    • What are the three major components of a worm


    attack?

    1- Enabling vulnerability.
    2- Propagation mechanism.
    3- Payload.

    • What are the three components of information security


    ensured by cryptography?

    1- Confidentiality.
    2- Integrity.
    3- Availability.
    • What are the three core components of the Cisco
    Secure Data Center solution?

    1- Secure segmentation.
    2- Threat defense.
    3- Visibility.

    • What is a ping sweep?

    A network scanning technique that indicates the live hosts in a range of IP addresses.

    • A disgruntled employee is using Wireshark to discover


    administrative Telnet usernames and passwords. What
    type of network attack does this describe?

    Reconnaissance

    • What a ransomware?

    Is amalware that employs encryption to hold a victim's information at ransom.

    • What biometrics means?

    Biometrics are biological measurements or physical characteristics,


    that can be used to identify individuals.

    • What is fuzzing?

    is a program which injects automatically semi-random data into a program and detect bugs.
    • What are Script Kiddies?

    Is a term that computer hackers coined to refer to immature,


    but often just as dangerous, exploiters of internet security weaknesses.

    • What is the difference between a virus and a worm?


    1- Worm:
    A worm can spread swiftly through a device, and can replicate itself and spread over
    a network of computers.

    2- Virus:
    virus takes less time to spread across the system and attached itself to a file
    and can modify or erase data.

    • What is the difference between TACACS and RADIUS?


    1- RADIUS :
    is mainly a network access protocol for user authentication.

    2- TACACS:
    is predominantly used for administrating network devices like routers and switches.

    • What is the difference between authentication and


    authorization?
    1- Authentication :
    verifies the identity of a user or service.

    2- Authorization :
    determines their access rights..

    • what is the idea of DDOS?

    distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack:


    is a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic to a web property.

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