CEH v9 Question of the Week: Prevent Future DoS Attacks

Smith is an IT security consultant who has been hired on by an ISP that has recently been plagued by numerous DoS attacks. The ISP did not have the internal resources to prevent future attacks, so they hired Smith for his expertise. Smith looks through the company’s firewall logs and can see from the patterns that the attackers were using reflected DoS attacks. What measures can Smith take to help prevent future reflective DoS attacks against the ISP’s network?

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CEH v9 Question of the Week: SMB Over TCP/IP

NetBIOS over TCP/IP allows files and/or printers to be shared over the network. You are trying to intercept the traffic from a victim machine to a corporate network printer. You are attempting to hijack the printer network connection from your laptop by sniffing the wire. Which port does SMB over TCP/IP use?

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