Question

A security administrator has replaced the firewall and notices a number of dropped connections. After looking at the data the security administrator sees the following information that was flagged as a possible issue:_________.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is Option(A) i.e., An SQL injection attack is being

attempted.

Explanation:

In this given question some information is missing and is not the complete question. The missing is given as :

SELECT * FROM and ‘1’ = ‘1’

Which of the following can the security administrator determine from this?

A. The SQL injection attacked is being attempted.

B. An Legitimated connections is being dropped.

C. The network scan are being done by the system.

D. An attack of XSS is being attempted.

Now, coming to the answer "The security administration sees that an SQL injection is attempted while it notices a lot of connection dropped and has replaced with the firewall and will be the possible issue flagged on it, SQL injection is a type of injection that possibly executes harmful or malicious statements and effects any website or web application".

Hence the correct answer is Option A.