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Early Warning Services
Penetration Tester was asked...21 March 2016

How do you start metasploit?

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Type msfconsole in terminal. To launch it with a resource script, mfsconsole -r nameofscript.rc Less

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Incorrectly.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise | HPE
Penetration Tester was asked...16 May 2018

Why HP?

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Because HP stands for Happy Place.

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This looks so good: bit.ly/faang100

EY
Penetration Tester was asked...7 December 2013

What would you like to do in five years from now?

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After five years i am ceo of your company .

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This was a tricky question. The manager wanted to see if my answer is in line with the career path offered by the advanced security group at E n Y Less

EY
Penetration Tester was asked...15 April 2019

Technical question: networking security, application security, general penetration testing. Behavioural question: How to work in a group?, How it lead a team?, etc

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Early Warning Services
Penetration Tester was asked...21 March 2016

Is DNS TCP / UDP protocol?

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It's a trick questions. It is both

Smartsheet
Penetration Tester was asked...24 March 2022

Please explain your career and what you hope to gain at Smartsheet

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Explain my career: - Identify vulnerability as much as possible (in scope) - Recommend to other team how to fix the issue What I hope to gain at Smartsheet?: Ans: Well, all of my penetration tester experience I work at vendor company. I never work at customer company before. I want to challenge myself that all of experience that work with multiple type of customer organization could improve the security at Smartsheet. Less

SafeBreach
Penetration Tester was asked...1 June 2019

What is the main difference between processes and threads?

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Threads share the same memory allocated

NAB - National Australia Bank
Penetration Tester was asked...20 May 2023

name the 4 most common ways to prevent a XSS attack

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HTTP headers, validating input fields, WAF

Deloitte
Penetration Tester was asked...22 November 2021

What vulnerabilities could you find in a website?

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Front end vulnerabilities that could be bypassed easily in some cases by eliminating javascript code or back end vulnerabilities such as unsanitized input. Less

Axxum Technologies
Web Applications Penetration Tester was asked...22 August 2015

Name some of the top 10 OWASP Web Application Vulnerabilities and describe them in layman's terms.

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I named the top one SQL Injection, the third, XXS and one of the lower ones CSRF. I could have done a better job describing them - I was told in a phone call afterwards. Less

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