Exam 7: Information Technology Crime

IT crime costs the global economy an estimated $388 million in 2012.

Due to the tradition of high skill in mathematics, physics, and computing, many IT attacks originate from what area of the world?

Mobile device attacks are typically imported through applications.

Trespassing on information networks without doing any damage or leaving any trace of the visit is the least serious IT crime.

Which activities are considered IT crime?

What was decided upon in the Budapest Convention?

Black-hat hackers seek to make systems unusable or to steal data or other resources.

In this attack a perpetrator attempts to prevent users from accessing a server's information or services such as e-mails.

Black-hat hackers may be contracted or employed to test security on a system.

These hackers break into computer networks not necessarily to do damage, but to seek out exploits.

What factor affects the availability of security products written for that market?

This is much like a virus in that it replicates itself but does not require a host file or human action.

This is an attempt to acquire personal information such as usernames and passwords.

IT crime are criminal offenses that are committed with devices that communicate information to one another via networks.

What is the definition of the following word: -Denial-of-service attack.

If a security technology company cannot make a profit in a developing market, then it will not produce software for that market.

What is the definition of the following word: -Trojan

Which of the following resources do developing countries lack to build against IT crime?

Perpetrators with these motives target information that may be used or sold in order to enrich themselves.

How can a Trojan be disguised?