Exam 2: Computer Security Basics

FileVault is a data encryption feature in macOS.

What term describes a password cracker that tries a huge number of possible passwords?

Windows EFS encrypts entire drives.

An email containing enticements (often appealing to human weaknesses)to open attachments is a form of what type of threat?

After several failed attempts to log on/sign in to your Windows computer you see a message stating that your account has been locked out. What caused this problem?

What term describes unsolicited instant messages?

You attempt to install software in Windows; and although you are logged on with a computer administrator type of account, your screen turns grey and you receive a message asking if you want to allow the program to make changes to the computer. What Windows feature is at work here?

This software or hardware device examines network traffic and allows or rejects traffic into a network or computer based on predefined rules.

This special file holds a secret key.

This method of malware infection installs malware through use of a separate browser window that opens uninvited from a Web page. If you click within the window, you may unknowingly agree to install malware.

What does the term "malware" stand for?

We recommend that you block first-party cookies and allow third-party cookies.

Use this feature of your Microsoft account to group together other accounts as family and protect children via activity reporting, screen time limits, and content restrictions.

What type of threat points your browser's home page to a website you did not chose, and may even keep you from changing the browser's default home page?

When you access a Web page to pay for an online purchase, it should show HTTPS as the protocol in the address line.

Define EFS.

This type of software protects against unsolicited e-mail, filtering out those that have certain characteristics.

Describe at least two symptoms that can mean that you are the victim of identity theft.

If your private network has both client computers needing Internet access and servers that must be available from the Internet, you should create this separate network for those servers in order to keep Internet-initiated traffic from entering the network containing your client computers. What is the term for the network where the servers are located?

HTTPS uses a private key to encrypt data between a client and an e-commerce server.