Question 221

At a large insurance technology firm in Dublin, Ireland, a security assessment team was evaluating the resilience of an internal HTTPS-based claims-processing platform. The application relied heavily on encrypted communication channels to protect sensitive customer transactions exchanged between client systems and backend services.
During controlled testing, a penetration tester positioned within the internal network began analyzing encrypted traffic flows between employee workstations and the application gateway. While the payload contents remained unreadable, the tester observed repeated patterns in certain cryptographic parameters associated with multiple secure sessions established over time. By carefully correlating these patterns across numerous requests, the tester identified that specific values expected to remain unique during encrypted exchanges were being reused under certain conditions.
At this stage, the tester was able to derive sufficient information to construct forged communication data accepted by the server as authentic.
What technique best accounts for this cryptographic weakness?
  • Question 222

    Which method of password cracking takes the most time and effort?
  • Question 223

    You have been hired as an intern at a start-up company. Your first task is to help set up a basic web server for the company's new website. The team leader has asked you to make sure the server is secure from common threats. Based on your knowledge from studying for the CEH exam, which of the following actions should be your priority to secure the web server?
  • Question 224

    Susan, a software developer, wants her web API to update other applications with the latest information. For this purpose, she uses a user-defined HTTP tailback or push APIs that are raised based on trigger events:
    when invoked, this feature supplies data to other applications so that users can instantly receive real-time Information.
    Which of the following techniques is employed by Susan?
  • Question 225

    While performing a SYN (half-open) scan using Nmap, you send a SYN packet to a target IP address and receive a SYN/ACK response. How should this result be interpreted?