Exam 11: Security and Ethics

The first widely destructive worm infected more than 6,000 systems over several days in 1988.

A ____ combines into one program the characteristics of other attacks.

A gap in system security is always malicious.

____ is a form of social engineering whereby an intruder pretends to be a legitimate entity and contacts unwary users asking them to reconfirm their personal and/or financial information.

____ peruse data packets as they pass by, examine each one for specific information, and log copies of interesting packets for more detailed examination.

Using ____, a firewall reviews the header information for incoming and outgoing Internet packets to verify that the source address, destination address, and protocol are all correct.

Some viruses are benign.

The immediate result of a worm is ____.

Public/private key encryption relies on the fact that there is no known formula for factoring large numbers greater than ____ digits.

Two methods of active wire tapping are "between lines transmission" and "____."