312-50v10 practice questions, page 12 of 13, with answer review and explanations.
Question 56
In which of the following cryptography attack methods, the attacker makes a series of interactive queries, choosing subsequent plaintexts based on the information from the previous encryptions?
Chosen-plaintext attack
Ciphertext-only attack
Adaptive chosen-plaintext attack
Known-plaintext attack
Question 57
Which of the following attacks exploits web age vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to force an unsuspecting user's browser to send malicious requests they did not intend?
Command Injection Attacks
File Injection Attack
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Hidden Field Manipulation Attack
Question 58
Which is the first step followed by Vulnerability Scanners for scanning a network?
TCP/UDP Port scanning
Firewall detection
OS Detection
Checking if the remote host is alive
Question 59
Shellshock allowed an unauthorized user to gain access to a server. It affected many Internet-facing services, which OS did it not directly affect?
Linux
Unix
OS X
Windows
Question 60
Alice encrypts her data using her public key PK and stores the encrypted data in the cloud. Which of the following attack scenarios will compromise the privacy of her data?
None of these scenarios compromise the privacy of Alice's data
Agent Andrew subpoenas Alice, forcing her to reveal her private key. However, the cloud server successfully resists Andrew's attempt to access the stored data
Hacker Harry breaks into the cloud server and steals the encrypted data
Alice also stores her private key in the cloud, and Harry breaks into the cloud server as before