Chapter 7

  • A search on Bing for “ping of death” shows multiple pages describing this vulnerability. It uses malformed packets that can cause problems when a system tries to handle it. This is one of the common attacks that Microsoft’s Forefront Threat Management Gateway can detect, as described here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc984458.aspx.
  • These are well-known ports for NetBIOS. You can identify the well-known ports and their matching protocols here: www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers.
  • Answers may vary, but they should resemble either Figure 7-4 or 7.5.
  • A search on Bing for “dnssec root dns” shows multiple pages. http://www.root-dnssec.org/ provides a high-level timeline and shows that it was deployed to all DNS root servers ...

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