Security Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Security Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is your opinion on hacktivist groups such as Anonymous?

1 2694

What is the Three-way handshake? How can it be used to create a DOS attack?

1 5392

Why would you bring in an outside contractor to perform a penetration test?

1 3451

If you were going to break into a database-based website, how would you do it?

1 5217

Why are internal threats oftentimes more successful than external threats?

1 4299

What is residual risk?

1 1774

Why is deleted data not truly gone when you delete it?

1 2847

What is the Chain of Custody?

1 2170

How would you permanently remove the threat of data falling into the wrong hands?

1 4323

What is Exfiltration?

1419

I run an SMB. I have 4 people in my entire company and a web-based store. I don’t have the time, patience or manpower to have a computer guy. Why should I care about exploits and computer jibberish?

1682

I’m the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I make more in an afternoon than you make in a year. I don’t care about this stupid security stuff, it just costs time and money and slows everything down. Why should I care about this junk?

1340

How many security protocols available?

1 2560

What is dora process in DHCP and how it works?

2439

Configuring ACLs is an important part of working with the IOS Firewall. What wildcard masks are replaced in ACLs by the words host and any?

1 1569

Un-Answered Questions { Security }

Which payphones will a red box work on?

What are some irc channels of interest to hackers?

Explain what is DOS (Denial of service) attack? What are the common forms of DOS attack?

960

What is a spooler on a computer?

562

What tools do real hackers use?

449

What is data source in computer?

555

What is meant by computer application?

543

What is dora process in DHCP and how it works?

2439

1. Assume that passwords are selected from four-character combination of 26 alphabetic characters. Assume that an adversary is able to attempt passwords at a rate of one per second. a. Assuming no feedback to the adversary until each attempt has been completed, what is the expected time to recover the correct password? b. Assuming feedback to the adversary flagging an error as each incorrect character is entered, what is the expected time to discover the correct password?

1673

How do I access the password file under unix?

How do I build a red box?

What os do hackers use?

488

What are the 3 types of hackers?

482

What is a black box?

How do I break out of a restricted shell?

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