Exam 1: The Threat Environment

Most cookies are dangerous.

Watching someone type their password in order to learn the password is called ________.

The primary purpose for attackers to send port scanning probes to hosts is to identify which ports are open.

The definition of hacking is "intentionally accessing a computer resource without authorization or in excess of authorization."

The terms "intellectual property" and "trade secret" are synonymous.

The three common core goals of security are ________.

What type of employee is the most dangerous when it comes to internal IT attacks?

Confidentiality means that attackers cannot change or destroy information.

Which of the following can be a type of spyware?

________ attacks take advantage of flawed human judgment by convincing the victim to take actions that are counter to security policies. (Choose the best answer.)

About how long was the Sony PlayStation Network offline as a result of the cyber attacks?

When a threat succeeds in causing harm to a business, this is called a ________.

In a virus, the code that does damage is called the ________.

Money mules transfer stolen money for criminals and take a small percentage for themselves.

Attackers rarely use IP address spoofing to conceal their identities.

Preventative countermeasures identify when a threat is attacking and especially when it is succeeding.

Compared to non-computer crime, computer crime is very small.

Social engineering is rarely used in hacking.

A(n) ________ attack attempts to make a server or network unavailable to serve legitimate users by flooding it with attack packets.

Employees often have extensive knowledge of systems and can pose a greater risk than external attackers.