QUESTION 1 Angst and Ettercap are active tools while Wireshark and Snort of pass

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QUESTION 1 Angst and Ettercap are active tools while Wireshark and Snort of passive tools. For security analyst O wireshark and snort are preferable because they passively capture packets and do not cause any interference with the O Ettercap and Angst are better because they participate in defense actively. they are equally bad because they are attack tools and not defense tools. O they are equally good because they do the same thing actively or passively capture packets and provide an analysis QUESTION 2 When 100000 machines are launching a DDoS simultaneously chances are that these machines are e using Windows OS because it has most vulnerabilities. bots that are attacking a server victims themselves, called zombies QUESTION 3 A port scanner can be used to () attack a network and (ili) as a defense against an attack O this is not true because no one would like to scan their own ports n this is true because while a port scanner attacks the other party's network it secures the attacker's own network by removing its footprints o this is true because testing your own ports for vulnerabilities is defense, and checking someone else's open ports is a stage of attack Dthis is not true because a port scanner is neither a defense tool nor an attack tool It is a document scanning software

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Q1) Angst and Ettercap are active tools while Wireshark and Snort are passive tools. For security analyst:

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b) Ettercap and Angst are better because they participate in defense actively.

Angst and Ettercap are active tools which can change the network traffic transmitted through it. Wireshark and Snort passively analyze the packets and capture data.

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