Exam 9: Securing Your System: Protecting Your Digital Data and Devices

Social ________ is any technique that uses social skills to generate human interaction that entices individuals to reveal sensitive information.

A macro virus is a virus that is attached to a file.

________ are often used to perform legitimate functions on websites, such as collecting names and addresses of customers, but some can be malicious and can infect your computer with a virus.

A(n) ________-hat hacker illegally penetrates a system simply to demonstrate the hacker's expertise to the system administrator.

Creating and spreading online viruses is a cybercrime.

Taking someone's personal information and posing as that person for financial or legal transactions is known as ________.

A game or screen saver that appears desirable or useful but when it runs does something malicious is called a(n) ________.

________ is malware that tries to convince you that your computer is infected with a virus.

Using a ____program, hackers can access and delete all the files on your computer, send e-mail, run programs, and do just about anything else you can do with your computer.

The terms virus and worm mean the same thing.

Gray-hat hackers are not doing anything illegal.

A firewall designed specifically for home networks is called a ________ firewall.

A program installed by hackers that allows them to take almost complete control of your computer without your knowledge is called a(n) ________ program.

________ occurs when malicious code is planted on your computer, either by viruses or by your visiting malicious websites, which then alters your browser's ability to find web addresses.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the ________.

A whole-house surge protector is installed ________.

Anyone who unlawfully breaks into an individual computer or a computer network is called a(n) ________.

A(n) ________ is the portion of virus code that is unique to a particular computer virus.