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EC-Council Certified Security Specialist (ECSS) Questions 170–174 (page: 34)

Updated On: 10-Feb-2026

Alice wants to prove her identity to Bob. Bob requests her password as proof of identity, which Alice dutifully provides (possibly after some transformation like a hash function); meanwhile, Eve is eavesdropping the conversation and keeps the password. After the interchange is over, Eve connects to Bob posing as Alice; when asked for a proof of identity, Eve sends Alice's password read from the last session, which Bob accepts. Which of the following attacks is being used by Eve?

  1. Firewalking
  2. Replay
  3. Session fixation
  4. Cross site scripting

Answer(s): B



According to the Sophos Security Threat Report 2009, which country amongst the following tops in producing spam (unwanted e-mails)?

  1. Russia
  2. United States
  3. China
  4. Turkey

Answer(s): B



Which of the following viruses/worms uses the buffer overflow attack?

  1. Nimda virus
  2. Code red worm
  3. Chernobyl (CIH) virus
  4. Klez worm

Answer(s): B



Which of the following proxy servers is placed anonymously between the client and remote server and handles all of the traffic from the client?

  1. Web proxy server
  2. Caching proxy server
  3. Open proxy server
  4. Forced proxy server

Answer(s): D



John works as a professional Ethical Hacker for SecureEnet Inc. The company has a Windowsbased network. All client computers run on Windows XP. A project has been assigned to John to investigate about the open ports responsible for various malicious attacks on the network. John wants to use the DOS command-line utility to find out the open ports. Which of the following DOS commands will John use to accomplish the task?

  1. nslookup
  2. tracert and pathping
  3. netstat
  4. nbtstat

Answer(s): C



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