Encryption️ Intermediate Quiz 5

Attacker secretly relays and possibly alters communications between two parties Physical theft of a computing device used to store highly sensitive user data Observing a user as they type their password into a public workstation terminal

A targeted attack on the navigation sidebar of a vulnerable enterprise website Gaining unauthorized access to a computer system through social media profiles Gaining secret data from physical system traits like timing or power usage

Watching a screen recording of a previous hacking attempt for research purposes Maliciously repeating or delaying a valid data transmission to gain access Deleting a critical system file and immediately restoring it from a backup log

Retrieving encryption keys from a computer's RAM after it has been powered off Attempting to start a legacy computer system in an environmentally cold room A malicious software virus that causes the operating system screen to freeze

Researching the linguistic definition of various encryption terms in a manual An automated tool used to find and correct spelling errors within a password Defeating a cipher by testing every word in a pre-defined list of passwords

An attack launched where the hacker knows the legal name of the target user An attack where the hacker has both the plaintext and the encrypted version A method used to guess user passwords based on frequently used common words

Using Hash(m1) to calculate Hash(m1 + m2) without knowing the original secret Making a password artificially longer to trick a server into a buffer overflow A specialized administrative tool for extending the duration of a VPN session

A specialized exploit targeting a legacy database server named Oracle Database Adding extra physical padding material to protect a server inside a datacenter Using padding validation of a message to decrypt data without the secret key

A slang term for preparing hardware components for use in a clean datacenter Password security methods stored in the database and the system source code Deleting a stored user password and then recreating it using a recovery token

Analyzing information systems to find hidden aspects or break security codes The professional study of writing and implementing new encryption algorithms A specialized type of high-security hard drive used for governmental storage