Shirdi Sai Electricals Interview Questions and Answers

Scanning a network involves using specialized software to identify active devices and open ports on a network.

• Use network scanning tools like Nmap or Wireshark to scan for active devices

• Identify open ports on devices to assess potential vulnerabilities

• Analyze scan results to understand network topology and security risks

XSS attacks involve injecting malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users.

• Reflected XSS: Injected script is reflected off the web server to the victim's browser.

• Stored XSS: Injected script is stored on the server and displayed to all users who view the affected page.

• DOM-based XSS: The attack payload is executed as a result of modifying the DOM environment in the victim's browser.

• XSS via CSRF: Cross-Site Request Forgery attack that leverages XSS to execute unauthori...read more

Vulnerability is the state of being open to harm, damage, or attack.

• Vulnerability is the quality of being easily hurt physically or emotionally.

• It can also refer to weaknesses in systems or security that can be exploited by attackers.

• Being vulnerable can also mean being open to criticism or failure.

• Examples include a child being vulnerable to illness, a website vulnerable to hacking, or a person vulnerable to heartbreak.

Tuple is an ordered collection of elements while dictionary is an unordered collection of key-value pairs.

• Tuple uses indexing to access elements while dictionary uses keys to access values.

• Tuple is immutable while dictionary is mutable.

• Tuple is used to represent a single record while dictionary is used to represent a collection of records.

• Tuple is faster than dictionary for accessing elements.

• Example of tuple: (1, 'apple', True)

• Example of dictionary: {'name': 'John', 'age': 2...read more

XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attack is a type of security vulnerability where attackers inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users.

• Attackers inject malicious scripts into web pages

• Scripts can steal sensitive information like cookies or session tokens

• Can be stored or reflected XSS

• Prevent by sanitizing user input and encoding output