Chapter 8 - Desktop and Server OS Vulnerabilities

NetBios is not available in Windows Vista, Server 2008, and later versions of Windows. However, NetBios should be understood by a security professional because it is used for which of the following?

Backward compatibility

What programming languages are vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks?

C and C++

For a Windows computer to be able to access a *nix resource, which of the following must be enabled on both systems?

CIFS

Which standardized remote file system protocol replaced SMB in Windows 2000 Server and later?

Common Internet File System

What specific type of Windows Servers are used to authenticate user accounts and contain most of the information that attackers want to access?

Domain Controllers

What critical component of any OS, that can be can be vulnerable to attacks, is used to store and manage information?

File system

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer has its origins in which of the following command line scanners?

HFNetChk

Which of the following is a common Linux rootkit?

Linux Rootkit 5

To determine whether a system could be vulnerable to an RPC-related issue, which of the following tools can be used?

MBSA

Which of the following is an SELinux OS security mechanism that enforces access rules based on privileges for interactions between processes, files, and users?

Mandatory Access Control

What is the current file system that Windows utilizes that has strong security features?

NTFS

Which of the following protocols does NetBios use to access a network resource?

NetBEUI

Early Windows OSs used which of the following programs loaded into memory to interact with a network resource or device?

NetBIOS

NetBIOS over TCP/IP is called which of the following in Windows Server 2003?

NetBT

Which of the following is an interprocess communication mechanism that allows a program running on one host to run code on a remote host?

RPC

Which of the following Window's utilities includes a suite of tools to help administrators deploy and manage servers and even allows for administrators to control mobile devices running Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile OS?

SCCM

Which of the following is an open-source implementation of CIFS?

Samba

When using the Common Internet File System (CIFS), which security model does not require a password to be set for the file share?

Share-level security

SMB is used to share files and usually runs on top of NetBIOS, NetBEUI, or which of the following?

TCP/IP

When using the Common Internet File System (CIFS), which security model will require network users to have a user name and password to access a specific resource?

User-level Security

Which of the following is a Window's client/server technology designed to manage patching and updating systems software from the network?

WSUS

Ubuntu and Debian Linux use what command to update and manage their RPM packages?

apt-get

What is the most serious shortcoming of Microsoft's original File Allocation Table (FAT) file system?

no ACL support

Which of the following is considered to be the most critical SQL vulnerability?

null SA password

Red Hat and Fedora Linux use what command to update and manage their RPM packages?

yum