Q. What "layer" of an e-mail message should you consider when evaluating e-mail security?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
All of the above
Information Security MCQs and Notes
Q. This electronic "credit card" establishes a user's credentials when doing business or other transactions on the Web and is issued by a certification authority.
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Digital certificate
Q. This is a compromised Web site that is being used as an attack launch point in a denialof-service attack.
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
Zombie
Q. 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.
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
Hijacking
Q. This is the forging of an e-mail header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source.
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
E-mail spoofing
Q. 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.
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
Buffer overflow
Q. This is the modification of personal information on a Web user's computer to gain unauthorized information with which to obtain access to the user's existing accounts.
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Cookie poisoning
Q. This is a program in which harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data.
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
Trojan horse
Q. This is an attack on a computer system that takes advantage of a particular vulnerability that the system offers to intruders.
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
Exploit
Q. The developers of an operating system or vendor application might issue this to prevent intruders from taking advantage of a weakness in their programming.
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
Patch