Question 576
At a Los Angeles-based online gaming company, penetration tester John investigates a recent cloud breach that caused downtime and delayed alerts. He finds that the root issue was management's lack of defined responsibilities for monitoring, auditing, and securing serverless services, which left critical functions unmanaged. Which cloud computing threat does this scenario best illustrate?
Question 577
In Dallas, Texas, Alex, a cloud security specialist at a logistics company, is designing a cloud infrastructure to deploy containerized web applications for real-time shipment tracking. To ensure the applications remain accessible even if one node fails, with minimal downtime, Alex plans to run several nodes as a group so that, if one node goes down, another node in the cluster can automatically continue handling its workload. This setup will leverage cloud clustering for enhanced scalability by distributing container instances across nodes in different zones. Which type of cluster computing should Alex implement to achieve these capabilities in the cloud environment?
Question 578
Steve, an attacker, created a fake profile on a social media website and sent a request to Stella. Stella was enthralled by Steve ' s profile picture and the description given for his profile, and she initiated a conversation with him soon after accepting the request. After a few days, Steve started asking about her company details and eventually gathered all the essential information regarding her company. What is the social engineering technique Steve employed in the above scenario?
Question 579
A penetration tester is tasked with assessing the security of an Android mobile application that stores sensitive user data. The tester finds that the application does not use proper encryption to secure data at rest. What is the most effective way to exploit this vulnerability?
Question 580
Matthew, a black hat, has managed to open a meterpreter session to one of the kiosk machines in Evil Corp's lobby. He checks his current SID, which is S-1-5-21-1223352397-1872883824-861252104-501. What needs to happen before Matthew has full administrator access?
