SSCP · Question #27
Which of the following is NOT a technique used to perform a penetration test?
The correct answer is A. traffic padding. Traffic padding is a defensive countermeasure that injects dummy data into communications to obscure traffic patterns and frustrate traffic analysis attacks. It is a protection technique, not an offensive penetration testing technique. Scanning and probing (port/vulnerability…
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Which of the following is NOT a technique used to perform a penetration test?
Options
- Atraffic padding
- Bscanning and probing
- Cwar dialing
- Dsniffing
How the community answered
(28 responses)- A89% (25)
- B4% (1)
- D7% (2)
Explanation
Traffic padding is a defensive countermeasure that injects dummy data into communications to obscure traffic patterns and frustrate traffic analysis attacks. It is a protection technique, not an offensive penetration testing technique. Scanning and probing (port/vulnerability scanning), war dialing (automated scanning of phone numbers for modems), and sniffing (capturing network traffic) are all standard reconnaissance and data-gathering techniques used during a penetration test.
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