True or False? Privilege escalation refers to changing account privileges to decrease access and increase restrictions.

Active fingerprinting has many advantages, but using this technique increases the chances of being detected. What is a benefit of active operating system (OS) fingerprinting?

Countermeasures to thwart footprinting of an organization’s website include all of the following except:

True or False? Password cracking is part of the exploitation phase of an attack.

True or False? An advantage to brute-force password attacks is that they take little time to perform even as key lengths increase.

Shoulder surfing, keyboard sniffing, and social engineering are considered what type of attack?

True or False? From the perspective of active reconnaissance, a network map indicates open ports and identifies services running on servers in a target network.

True or False? A rootkit is typically unable to hide itself from detection, which makes the device easy to locate.

True or False? Cleartext and plaintext both refer to data in any format that is unencrypted and is understandable to a person or an application.

True or False? Google hacking is the process of using the Google Internet search engine to locate useful information by using techniques already provided by the search engine, but by applying them in new ways.