CompTIA Security+ Exam Notes

CompTIA Security+ Exam Notes
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Saturday, May 20, 2023

Email-based attacks

 EMAIL ATTACKS

Phishing
Email based
Prevented by DMARC
Spear phishing
Email based
Multiple people in the same department/company
Prevented by DMARC
Whaling
Email based
C-Level (CEO, CFO, etc) Board of Directors
Specific to the person it targets

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Whois command

 WHOIS COMMAND

Whois

·         Too much information


·         The correct amount of information



Wednesday, May 10, 2023

SQL Injection Attack

 SQLi

SQLi (SQL Injection)

·         Server-side attack

·         A query formatted: ‘ or ‘1’=’1’ -- is a SQL injection attack.

·         SELECT * FROM

·         Prevented by

o   Input validation

o   Removing semi-colons, dashes, quotations, & commas

o   Stored procedures