Security Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Security Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Why would you want to use SSH from a Windows pc?

1 6564

What’s the difference between Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption?

1 3727

What is SSL and why is it not enough when it comes to encryption?

1 6502

How would you find out what a POST code means?

1 4008

What is the difference between a Black Hat and a White Hat?

1 3317

You need to reset a password-protected BIOS configuration. What do you do?

1 3460

What is XSS?

1 3347

How would you login to Active Directory from a Linux or Mac box?

1788

What are salted hashes?

1 5140

What do you think of social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn?

1 3537

What are the three ways to authenticate a person?

1 5845

How would you judge if a remote server is running IIS or Apache?

2 9115

What is data protection in transit vs data protection at rest?

1 4116

You see a user logging in as root to perform basic functions. Is this a problem?

1 5900

How do you protect your home Wireless Access Point?

1 3441

Un-Answered Questions { Security }

How do I hack chanop on irc?

What is password shadowing?

What are accessories in computer?

913

A phonetic password generator picks two segments randomly for each six-letter password. The form of each segment is CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant), where V= < a, e, i, o, u > and C = (V.) ̅ What is the total password population? What is the probability of an adversary guessing a password correctly?

4284

Explain what is DOS (Denial of service) attack? What are the common forms of DOS attack?

1297

Which payphones will a red box work on?

What is nis/yp?

How do I break out of a restricted shell?

What are some irc channels of interest to hackers?

I run an SMB. I have 4 people in my entire company and a web-based store. I don’t have the time, patience or manpower to have a computer guy. Why should I care about exploits and computer jibberish?

2108

What is the most commonly used computer application?

918

What is Exfiltration?

1814

What software do hackers use?

834

What are the 3 types of hackers?

841

I’m the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I make more in an afternoon than you make in a year. I don’t care about this stupid security stuff, it just costs time and money and slows everything down. Why should I care about this junk?

1711

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