GCIH GIAC Certified Incident Handler

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Question 7 (Volume C)

Which of the following statements about threats are true?

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  • A threat is a weakness or lack of safeguard that can be exploited by vulnerability, thus causing harm to the information systems or networks.

  • A threat is a potential for violation of security which exists when there is a circumstance, capability, action, or event that could breach security and cause harm.

  • A threat is a sequence of circumstances and events that allows a human or other agent to cause an information-related misfortune by exploiting vulnerability in an IT product.

  • A threat is any circumstance or event with the potential of causing harm to a system in the form of destruction, disclosure, modification of data, or denial of service.

Question 8 (Volume A)

Which of the following are types of access control attacks?

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  • Spoofing

  • Brute force attack

  • Dictionary attack

  • Mail bombing

Question 9 (Volume B)

Which of the following types of malware can an antivirus application disable and destroy?

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  • Rootkit

  • Trojan

  • Crimeware

  • Worm

  • Adware

  • Virus