EC-Council
412-79V10 · Question #237
Terri works for a security consulting firm that is currently performing a penetration test on First National Bank in Tokyo. Terri's duties include bypassing firewalls and intrusion-detection systems…
The correct answer is C. Trick the switch into thinking it already has a session with Terri's computer. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
Terri works for a security consulting firm that is currently performing a penetration test on First National Bank in Tokyo. Terri's duties include bypassing firewalls and intrusion-detection systems using MAC flooding. She is asked to do one of the company's switches with ACK, PSH and the Source address of her machine set. What is Terri trying to accomplish by sending this IP packet?
Options
- APoison the switch's MAC address table by flooding it with ACK bits
- BDisable tunneling protocols on the switch
- CTrick the switch into thinking it already has a session with Terri's computer
- DCrash the switch with a DoS attack since switches cannot send ACK bits
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