Exam 2: The Need for Security

The process of maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data managed by a DBMS is known as __________ security.

_________ is the percentage of time a particular service is available.

Software code known as a(n) cookie can allow an attacker to track a victim's activity on Web sites. _________________________

The average amount of time until the next hardware failure is known as __________.

When voltage levels lag (experience a momentary increase), the extra voltage can severely damage or destroy equipment. _________________________

Media are items of fact collected by an organization and include raw numbers, facts, and words.

A short-term interruption in electrical power availability is known as a ____.

The macro virus infects the key operating system files located in a computer's start-up sector. _________________________

Describe viruses and worms.

__________ occurs when an application running on a Web server inserts commands into a user's browser session and causes information to be sent to a hostile server.

Hackers can be generalized into two skill groups: expert and ____________________.

Script ____________________ are hackers of limited skill who use expertly written software to attack a system.

Two watchdog organizations that investigate allegations of software abuse are the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and National Security Agency (NSA).

The ____________________ fraud is a social engineering attack that involves convincing the victim to participate in a seeming money-making venture while getting the victim to pay fees or bribes or to refund uncleared international payments.

Cyberterrorists hack systems to conduct terrorist activities via network or Internet pathways. _________________________

A computer virus consists of segments of code that perform ____________________ actions.

One form of online vandalism is ____________________ operations, which interfere with or disrupt systems to protest the operations, policies, or actions of an organization or government agency.

Intellectual property is defined as "the creation, ownership, and control of ideas as well as the representation of those ideas." _________________________

A ____________________ is an attack in which a coordinated stream of requests is launched against a target from many locations at the same time.

Microsoft acknowledged that if you type a res:// URL (a Microsoft-devised type of URL) longer than ____________________ characters in Internet Explorer 4.0, the browser will crash.