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Establishing a connection from a remote machine in order to launch an attack can be described as a _____________________.

A hacker is able to install a keylogger on a user’s computer.  What is the hacker attempting to do in this situation?

In a stack overflow attack, to where does the return address point?

Encryption for confidentiality was the original purpose of cryptography.

The following is an example of what type of vulnerability? An application uses untrusted data in the construction of the following vulnerable SQL call: String query = “SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE custID='” + request.getParameter(“id”) + “’”;

In pretexting, an attacker calls claiming to be a certain person in order to ask for private information about that person.

Public key encryption is ________.

In a _________________  attack, the attacker disrupts services by taking down hosts.

You have been performing a vulnerability test on your system. Those who are conducting the testing have knowledge about the system that they are running their tests on. What type of testing is being used?

________ is a generic term for “evil software.”