Ethical Hacker Pro Ch. 4

Xavier is doing reconnaissance. He is gathering information about a company and its employees by going through their social media content. Xavier is using a tool that pulls information from social media postings that were made using location services. What is the name of this tool?

Echosec

What's the name of the open-source forensics tool that can be used to pull information from social media postings and find relationships between companies, people, email addresses, and other information?

Maltego

You are in the reconnaissance phase at the XYZ company. You want to use nmap to scan for open ports and use a parameter to scan the 1,000 most common ports. Which nmap command would you use?

nmap -sS xyzcompany.com

You have found the IP address of a host to be 172.125.68.30. You want to see what other hosts are available on the network. Which of the following nmap commands would you enter to do a ping sweep?

nmap -sn 172.125.68. 1-255

Which of the following is the difference between an ethical hacker and a criminal hacker?

An ethical hacker has permission to hack a system, and a criminal hacker doesn't have permission.

John, a security specialist, conducted a review of the company's website. He discovered that sensitive company information was publicly available. Which of the following information sharing policies did he discover were being violated?

An internet policy

A penetration tester is trying to extract employee information during the reconnaissance phase. What kinds of data is the tester collecting about the employees?

Contact names, phone numbers, email addresses, fax numbers, and addresses

Which of the following services is most targeted during the reconnaissance phase of a hacking attack?

DNS

Which of the following elements of penetration testing includes the use of web surfing, social engineering, dumpster diving, and social networking?

Information gathering techniques

Dan wants to implement reconnaissance countermeasures to help protect his DNS service. Which of the following actions should he take?

Install patches against known vulnerabilities and clean up out-of-date zones, files, users, and groups.

Whois, Nslookup, and ARIN are all examples of:

Network footprinting tools

When a penetration tester starts gathering details about employees, vendors, business processes, and physical security, which phase of testing are they in?

Reconnaissance

What does the Google Search operator allinurl:keywords do?

Shows results in pages that contain all of the listed keywords.

MinJu, a penetration tester, is testing a client's security. She notices that every Wednesday, a few employees go to a nearby bar for happy hour. She goes to the bar and starts befriending one of the employees with the intention of learning the employee's personal information. Which information gathering technique is MinJu using?

Social engineering

Julie configures two DNS servers, one internal and one external, with authoritative zones for the corpnet.xyz domain. One DNS server directs external clients to an external server. The other DNS server directs internal clients to an internal server. Which of the following DNS countermeasures is she implementing?

Split DNS

Which of the following information sharing policies addresses the sharing of critical information in press releases, annual reports, product catalogs, and marketing materials?

Which of the following information sharing policies addresses the sharing of critical information in press releases, annual reports, product catalogs, and marketing materials?

Iggy, a penetration tester, is conducting a black box penetration test. He wants to do reconnaissance by gathering information about ownership, IP addresses, domain name, locations, and server types. Which of the following tools would be most helpful?

Whois