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Paul has just finished setting up his wireless network and has enabled numerous security features such as changing the default SSID, enabling WPA encryption and enabling MAC filtering on his wireless router. Paul notices that when he uses his wireless connection, the speed is sometimes 54 Mbps and sometimes it is 24Mbps or less. Paul connects to his wireless router’s management utility and notices that a machine with an unfamiliar name is connected through his wireless connection. He checks the router’s logs and notices that the unfamiliar machine has the same MAC address as his laptop. What is Paul seeing here?

Smith is an IT security consultant who has been hired on by an ISP that has recently been plagued by numerous DoS attacks. The ISP did not have the internal resources to prevent future attacks, so they hired Smith for his expertise. Smith looks through the company’s firewall logs and can see from the patterns that the attackers were using reflected DoS attacks. What measures can Smith take to help prevent future reflective DoS attacks against the ISP’s network?

Which of the following encryptions are not based on a block cipher?

NetBIOS over TCP/IP allows files and/or printers to be shared over the network. You are trying to intercept the traffic from a victim machine to a corporate network printer. You are attempting to hijack the printer network connection from your laptop by sniffing the wire. Which port does SMB over TCP/IP use?

Which of the following is an example of penetration testing?