Hi everyone,
I’m currently working through the Cybersecurity Fundamentals course and I’m stuck on the guided exercise for IDS basics.
In this lab, we analyze .pcap files with Snort and answer questions about alerts. Specifically, I’m having trouble with these:
- How many Snort alerts does the ping to the Windows server generate?
- How many “Insecure Web Server Detected” alerts are found in the apple.pcap file?
- How many “FTP Server Detected” alerts are found in the apple.pcap file?
I’ve tried running Snort on the pcap files and checking the output, but my counts don’t seem to match the expected answers in the exercise.
Can you show us the commands you are trying an the output of those commands?
I’m having the same issue, and the number I’m getting apparently isn’t correct.
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Not only does my number not work, NO 2 digit numbers work. I thought to myself there are only 90 options so why not take 3 minutes and just try them all. None worked. So I tried it again counting down. None worked. Then I tried 01, 02, 03, etc… None worked. Clearly I’m missing something.
The answer in your (redacted) screenshot is the correct answer, and it looks like you were able to finish the lab.
As I understand it, we had a brief (~15 min) issue with our backend around the time you posted, so my guess is that all answers were just being rejected outright because the assessment engine wasn’t responding. Sorry about that!
For what it’s worth, we have an update coming shortly that will allow answers to submitted individually, rather than relying on the single Submit button for the whole Task pane.