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The questionnaire to "to assess your suitability for a role" as an "IT Security Exploitation Officer" is actually pretty good. https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/i
by michaelaiello 15y ago
The questionnaire to "to assess your suitability for a role" as an "IT Security Exploitation Officer" is actually pretty good.
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/it-security-test-your-knowledge.aspx https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/it-security-test-your-knowled...
You enter the following string into an application:
"AAAAAAAAAAAABBBBCCCCCDDDD"
The program crashes with a message:
"Access violation executing 0x43434343"
a) This is likely to be an example of what sort of security vulnerability?
b) How might this leave a machine vulnerable to code execution?
c) This appears to relate to the use of the strcpy function. What improvements might you suggest the developer
add?
d) Running this application on newer operating system results in different behaviour. Why?
- corin_ 15y agoThe systems admin ones are crazily basic: On a Linux server what command line tools might you use to perform the following functions? a) view the firewall configuration b) format a partition using the ext3 filesystem c) viewing the configuration of the eth0 network interface d) unpack the file archive.tar e) create a symlink