CompTIA · Security+ SY0-801
Malware, physical, and network attacks
Security+ SY0-801 · Lesson 11 of 32 · 1:27:51
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Prepare for the Security+ SY0-801 exam (CompTIA Security+ V8). In this lesson: ransomware, worms, and trojans, malware that hides, physical attacks like tailgating, shoulder surfing, and skimming, network attacks like DDoS, protocol downgrades, and on-path attacks, and DNS attacks. Includes three original practice questions.
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- Thirty days after a database administrator is let go, the production planning database deletes all of its data at midnight. Investigators find a script, written months earlier, that checks every night whether the administrator’s account still exists. Which type of malware is this?
- The camera at the warehouse door shows a person in a delivery uniform carrying two large boxes, and an employee holding the door open for them. The badge system shows no entry for that person. Which attack is this?
- Users who type the web store’s address are sent to a copy of the store, but only when they use the company’s internal resolver. The store’s own servers have not changed. Which attack is this?