Exam 1: Ethics of Hacking and Cracking

In the 1970s, phone phreaks, a new sort of hacker, appeared. They used various methods, collectively called ____________________, to access telephone networks to make free calls from payphones.

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phreaking

____________________ is a security professional who applies his or her hacking skills for defensive purposes.

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ethical hacker

How are hackers commonly categorized?

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There are distinct groups of hackers; however, the membership between groups is fluid. There are two ways commonly used to categorize them:
* The first is the simplest -White Hat good hackers vs. Black Hat bad hackers.
* The second is based loosely on psychological profiling and is a more complicated and more useful way to understand the motivations of hackers.

Explain "love for puzzles" as a motivation for hackers.

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Question 4

Viruses are indiscriminate in their damaging effects, but only expert hackers can set one loose.

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Question 5

____________________ are the principles of conduct that govern individuals, groups, and professions.

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Question 6

____ hackers have limited computer and programming skills, and rely on toolkits to conduct their attacks.

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Question 7

What are some of the hackers' motivations?

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Question 8

The first password hacks were a response to the ___________________________________, developed in the early 1960s and first loaded on an IBM mainframe at MIT.

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Question 9

Making money is a rare motive among all classes of hacker.

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Question 10

The profession of ____ is emerging from a chaotic set of conflicting ethics from both the hobbyist and student communities and those on the information technology career track.

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Question 11

The ____ model is derived from old Western genre movies where the "good guys" always wore white hats and the "bad guys" always wore black hats.

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Question 12

Computer ____________________ is the term for illegally hacking into a computer system without the permission of the system's owner.

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Question 13

____ hackers act as mentors to new hackers. They write scripts and tools that others use.

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Question 14

The reading and techniques used by both ethical and malicious hackers are identical.

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Question 15

"____" hackers are evidence that the dichotomy of good and evil is NOT a very good fit to the real world.

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Question 16

Hacking requires that the practitioner be intimately familiar with the techniques of the perpetrator or opponent.

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Question 17

The protection of data provided to organizations or stored on personal computers is a high priority.

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In the 1970s, phone phreaks, a new sort of hacker, appeared. They used various methods, collectively called ____________________, to access telephone networks to make free calls from payphones.

____________________ is a security professional who applies his or her hacking skills for defensive purposes.

How are hackers commonly categorized?

Explain "love for puzzles" as a motivation for hackers.

Viruses are indiscriminate in their damaging effects, but only expert hackers can set one loose.

____________________ are the principles of conduct that govern individuals, groups, and professions.

____ hackers have limited computer and programming skills, and rely on toolkits to conduct their attacks.

What are some of the hackers' motivations?

The first password hacks were a response to the ___________________________________, developed in the early 1960s and first loaded on an IBM mainframe at MIT.

Making money is a rare motive among all classes of hacker.

The profession of ____ is emerging from a chaotic set of conflicting ethics from both the hobbyist and student communities and those on the information technology career track.

The ____ model is derived from old Western genre movies where the "good guys" always wore white hats and the "bad guys" always wore black hats.

Computer ____________________ is the term for illegally hacking into a computer system without the permission of the system's owner.

____ hackers act as mentors to new hackers. They write scripts and tools that others use.

The reading and techniques used by both ethical and malicious hackers are identical.

"____" hackers are evidence that the dichotomy of good and evil is NOT a very good fit to the real world.

Hacking requires that the practitioner be intimately familiar with the techniques of the perpetrator or opponent.

The protection of data provided to organizations or stored on personal computers is a high priority.

Reconnaissance

Scanning Tools

Sniffers

TCP/IP Vulnerabilities

Encryption and Password Cracking

Spoofing

Session Hijacking

Hacking Network Devices

Trojan Horses

Denial-Of-Service Attacks

Buffer Overflows

Programming Exploits

Mail Vulnerabilities

Web Application Vulnerabilities

Windows Vulnerabilities

Unix/Linux Vulnerabilities

Incident Handling

Filters