Why are Linux/Unix based computers better to use than Windows computers for idle scanning?

Harold is a web designer who has completed a website for ghttech.net. As part of the maintenance agreement he signed with the client, Harold is performing research online and seeing how much exposure the site has received so far. Harold navigates to google.com and types in the following search.

link:www.ghttech.net

What will this search produce?

After passing her CEH exam, Carol wants to ensure that her network is completely secure. She implements a DMZ, statefull firewall, NAT, IPSEC, and a packet filtering firewall. Since all security measures were taken, none of the hosts on her network can reach the Internet. Why is that?

What is the following command trying to accomplish?

Your company uses Cisco routers exclusively throughout the network. After securing the routers to the best of your knowledge, an outside security firm is brought in to assess the network security. Although they found very few issues, they were able to enumerate the model, OS version, and capabilities for all your Cisco routers with very little effort. Which feature will you disable to eliminate the ability to enumerate this information on your Cisco routers?

Jim performed a vulnerability analysis on his network and found no potential problems. He runs another utility that executes exploits against his system to verify the results of the vulnerability test. The second utility executes five known exploits against his network in which the vulnerability analysis said were not exploitable. What kind of results did Jim receive from his vulnerability analysis?

You are working on a thesis for your doctorate degree in Computer Science. Your thesis is based on HTML, DHTML, and other web-based languages and how they have evolved over the years. You navigate to archive.org and view the HTML code of news.com. You then navigate to the current news.com website and copy over the source code. While searching through the code, you come across something abnormal:

< img src=http://coolwebsearch.com/ads/pixel.news.com width=1 height=1 border=0 >

What have you found?

Why are Linux/Unix based computers better to use than Windows computers for idle scanning?

Which legal document allows law enforcement to search an office, place of business, or other locale for evidence relating to an alleged crime?

When reviewing web logs, you see an entry for resource not found in the HTTP status code fileD. What is the actual error code that you would see in the log for resource not found?