Information Gathering Techniques Quiz

What type of information is considered as personally identifiable information (PII) when gathered about employees during the reconnaissance phase?

• Geographical information, entry control systems, and vendor traffic

• Intellectual property, critical business functions, and management hierarchy

• Names, phone numbers, email addresses, fax numbers, and addresses

• Security policies and network mapping

Which of the following is included in physical security information gathered by malicious actors?

• Names, contact information, and account numbers of vendors

• Intellectual property, critical business functions, and management hierarchy

• Geographical information, entry control systems, employee routines, and vendor traffic

• Security policies and network mapping

What is the focus of attackers when gathering information about an organization's information systems?

• Employee personal details

• Vendor contact information and account numbers

• Intellectual property and critical business functions

• Operating systems, applications, security policies, and network mapping

Which of the following best describes passive information gathering techniques used by attackers?

• Directly interface with the organization's systems and leverage open-source tools

• Pose a greater danger to malicious actors because of exposure

• Rely on publicly available information sources such as the organization's website, brochures, press releases, etc.

• Gather names, contact information, and account numbers of vendors

What is a characteristic of active information gathering techniques?

• Pose little risk for the malicious actors

• Rely on publicly available information sources

• Pose a greater danger to malicious actors because of exposure

• Include geographical information and vendor traffic

What is Google Earth primarily used for?

• Providing a street view of houses, businesses, roadways, and topologies.

• Streaming digital cameras that show video of places, people, and activity.

• Providing current and historical satellite imagery of most locations.

• Pulling information from social media postings.

What does the Wayback Machine offer?

• A web mapping service that provides a street view.

• A catalog of old site snapshots that may contain information removed from the internet.

• A tool to find relationships between companies, people, email addresses, and other information.

• A satellite imagery tool that provides images of locations.

What type of information does the search operator "link:website" provide?

• All information about a website.

• Lists web pages that contain links to websites.

• Displays websites similar to the one listed.

• Displays websites in which directory browsing has been enabled.

Which tool can be used to pull information from social media postings that were made using location services?

• Google Maps

• Webcams

• Echosec

• Maltego

What is the purpose of Maltego in internet research?

• To provide street views of different locations.

• To stream videos from digital cameras online.

• To pull information from social media postings and find relationships between entities.

• To provide historical satellite imagery.