Which command attacks the target machine?

Ethical Hacking - Quiz(MCQ)

Hack

Attack

Offense

Exploit

Correct Answer : Exploit

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Performing a shoulder surfing in order to check other's password is ____________ ethical practice.

a good

a bad

not so good

very good social engineering practice

Correct Answer : a bad

Explanation : Overlooking or peeping into someone’s system when he/she is entering his/her password is a bad practice and is against the ethics of conduct for every individual. Shoulder surfing is a social engineering attack approach used by some cyber-criminals to know your password and gain access to your system later.

Which of them is not an example of physical hacking?

Phishing

Sneak-in

Break-in and steal

Walk-in using piggybacking

Correct Answer : Phishing

Explanation : Phishing does not come under physical security. Walk-in without proper authorization, sneaking in through glass windows or other means and breaking in and stealing sensitive documents are examples of physical hacking.

Which of the following is not a physical security measure to protect against physical hacking?

Create a phishing policy

Add front desk & restrict unknown access to the back room

Updating the patches in the software youâ€™re working at your office laptop.

Analyze how employees maintain their physical data and data storage peripheral devices

Correct Answer : Updating the patches in the software youâ€™re working at your office laptop.

Explanation : Updating the patches in your working software does not come under security measures for physical hacking. Updating the patches will help your software get free from bugs and flaws in an application as they get a fix when patches are updated.