{"id":172,"date":"2021-01-17T05:28:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp-question0164\/"},"modified":"2021-01-17T05:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T05:43:53","slug":"systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp-question0164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp-question0164\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems Security Certified Practitioner &#8211; SSCP &#8211; Question0164"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">Which of the following is an example of a passive attack? <br \/><strong><br \/>A.<\/strong> Denying services to legitimate users <br \/><strong>B.<\/strong> Shoulder surfing <br \/><strong>C.<\/strong> Brute-force password cracking <br \/><strong>D.<\/strong> Smurfing<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<style> .hidden-div{ display:none } <\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'block'\"> Show Answer <\/button> <button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'none'\">Hide Answer<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden-div\" id=\"hidden-div\"><span style=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">Correct Answer: <strong>B<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"explanation\">\nShoulder surfing is a form of a passive attack involving stealing passwords, personal identification numbers or other confidential information by looking over someone&#8217;s shoulder. All other forms of attack are active attacks, where a threat makes a modification to the system in an attempt to take advantage of a vulnerability. Source: HARRIS, Shon, All-In-One CISSP Certification Exam Guide, McGraw-Hill\/Osborne, 2002, chapter 3: Security Management Practices (page 63).<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the following is an example of a passive attack? A. Denying services to legitimate users B. Shoulder surfing C. Brute-force password cracking D. Smurfing Show Answer Hide Answer Correct Answer: B Explanation: Shoulder surfing is a form of a passive attack involving stealing passwords, personal identification numbers or other confidential information by looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1078,167,3],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp","tag-choices","tag-question-0164","tag-systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}