Exam 14: The Personal and Social Impact of Computers

Some web sites offer digital tools-often without charge-that let people snoop, crash computers, hijack control of a machine, or retrieve a copy of every keystroke.

Incidents of identity theft are reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Only few small and mid-sized organizations are willing to outsource their network security operations.

In order to protect the privacy of employees, email messages that have been erased from hard disks cannot be retrieved.

Organizations continue to operate their businesses using integrated information systems that leads to missed opportunities, increased costs, and lost sales.

Proper use of antivirus software requires:

Outline six useful policies to minimize computer-related waste and mistakes.

The act of going through the trash of an organization to find secret or confidential information, including information needed to access an information system or its data is known as _____.

A useful guideline to protect corporate computers from criminal hackers is to _____.

Multinational companies face an extremely difficult challenge in implementing data collection and dissemination processes and policies because of the multitude of differing country and regional statutes.

Smartphones-especially ones running the popular Android operating system-can run applications that are impervious to malware.

_____ is the act of unauthorized copying, downloading, sharing, selling, or installing of software.

Catching and convicting criminal hackers remains an easy task, and the method behind these crimes is often easy to determine.

A(n) _____ is a malicious program that disguises itself as a useful application or game and purposefully does something a user does not expect.

_____ is a set of programs that enables its user to gain administrator level access to a computer or network.

The hazardous activities associated with unfavorable working conditions are collectively referred to as _____.

Penalties for software piracy are lenient and liberal.

Role-based system access means that only people who fill a particular role can access a specific system.

A(n) _____ is a computer savvy person who attempts to gain unauthorized or illegal access to computer systems to steal passwords, corrupt files or programs, or even transfer money.

A job that requires sitting at a desk and using a computer for many hours a day can lead to: