Exam 9: Securing Your System: Protecting Your Digital Data and Devices

A(n) ________ can help block unwanted, unsolicited e-mail.

A worm does NOT require human interaction to spread to other computers.

A ________ is named after a housing construction feature that slows the spread of fires from house to house.

Unwanted, unsolicited e-mail is referred to as ________.

Creating and spreading online viruses is a cybercrime.

All of the following were top cybercrimes reported to the IC3 in 2012 EXCEPT ________.

You should use the same password for each system or website you need to access.

Social ________ is any technique that uses social skills to generate human interaction that entices individuals to reveal sensitive information.

Social ________ is any technique that uses social skills to generate human interaction that entices individuals to reveal sensitive information.

Rules for creating passwords include all of the following EXCEPT ________.

A(n) ________-hat hacker illegally penetrates a system simply to demonstrate the hacker's expertise to the system administrator.

Devices that use a unique personal characteristic, such as a fingerprint, in place of a password are called ________ authentication devices.

A packet sniffer is a program that can enable a hacker to do all of the following EXCEPT ________.

________ floods a computer with requests until it shuts down and refuses to answer any requests for information.

A(n) ________ is the portion of virus code that is unique to a particular computer virus.

________ hackers break into systems for non-malicious reasons such as to test system security vulnerabilities.

One virus called ________ is used to trick users into downloading an infected file to their phones, which enables theft of online banking information.