Chapter 9 Practice Multiple Choice – Flashcards
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White-hat
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_____ hackers break into systems for non-malicious reasons such as to test system security vulnerabilities.
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Cyberloafing
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Using your computer for non-work activities while you are being paid to work is known as ______.
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Time bomb
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A ______ is a virus that is triggered on a certain date.
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A firewall
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You can block logical ports from invaders and make your computer invisible to others on the Internet by installing ______.
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FBI and National White Collar Crime Center
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The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the _______.
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Boot-sector
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_______ viruses are often transmitted by a flash drive left in a USB port.
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Launch a denial of service (DoS) attack on your computer
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A packet sniffer is a program that can enable a hacker to do all of the following EXCEPT _______.
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Theft of services
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All of the following were top cybercrimes reported to the IC3 in 2012 EXCEPT ______.
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Computer viruses
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Creating and distributing ____ is one of the most widespread types of cyber crimes.
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Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
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CAPTCHA stands for ______.
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Firewall
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A ________ is named after a housing construction feature that slows the spread of fires from house to house.
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Use a dictionary to find a lengthy word that is easy to remember
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Rules for creating passwords include all of the following EXCEPT ______.
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Spyware
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_______ is a program that gathers information about your surfing habits without your knowledge.
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Polymorphic
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Which of the following classifications of viruses can change its own code to avoid detection?
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Cybercrime
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Which of the following is formally defined as any criminal action perpetrated primarily through the use of a computer?
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Worm
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A ______ takes advantage of file transport methods to spread on its own.
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Pharming
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Which of the following is NOT a virus category?
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Pharming
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When malicious code is planted on your computer and alters your browsers ability to find web addresses, it is known as _______.
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Rootkit
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A _______ allows a hacker to gain access to your computer and take almost complete control of it without your knowledge.
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Placing a found virus in a secure area on the hard drive
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With regard to computer protection, quarantining is defined as _________.
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Cookies obtain your personal information by searching your hard drive
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Which of the following statements about cookies is NOT true?
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Engineering
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Social _______ is any technique that uses social skills to generate human interaction that entices individuals to reveal sensitive information.
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Installing a manufacturers printer driver
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All of the following are ways that can infect your computer with a virus EXCEPT _______.
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A DDoS attack
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_______ floods a computer with requests until it shuts down and refuses to answer any requests for information.
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Virus signature
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A ________ is the portion of virus code that is unique to a particular computer virus.
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A time bomb
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Which type of virus was the famous Michelangelo virus?
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People pretending to represent official organizations
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FBI-related scams involve ______.
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Macro virus
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A _______ is a virus that is attached to documents such as word or excel files.
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Logical port blocking
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Configuring a firewall to ignore all incoming packets that request access to a specific port is known as _____.
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Grayware
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Adware and spyware are referred to collectively as _______.
