Question 1

_______________ is something that can 'increase the striking potential of a unit without increasing its personnel.'?

Accepted Answer

A)   force amplifier
B)   force multiplier
C)   tactical manuever
D)   kinetic amplifier B

Question 2

This form of hacktivism involves exposing collections of private information on an individual, often with the goal of shaming, silencing, or coercing the person.?

Accepted Answer

A)   Email bombs
B)   Doxxing and leaking
C)   Virtual sit-ins and blockades
D)   Development of privacy and resistance tools B

Question 3

This act considerably strengthened penalties under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986, including the provision for the life imprisonment of convicted 'cyberterrorists'.?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Terrorism Act of 2000
B)   The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012
C)   The US PATRIOT Act of 2001
D)   The Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002 C

Question 4

All of these components are involved in the definition of cyberterrorism except that _________________.?

Accepted Answer

A)   the act costs the government at least $10,000 in damages
B)   the act is against governmental entities
C)   the act is a part of a person or group's political agenda
D)   the act involves unlawful attacks or threats against ICTs

Question 5

_______________ is an "infrastructure or asset the incapacitation or destruction of which would have a debilitating impact on the national security or economic or social welfare of a nation."?

Accepted Answer

A)   Critical infrastructure
B)   Sensitive infrastructure
C)   Vital Infrastructure
D)   Necessary infrastructure

Question 6

Which individual leaked the video now titled "Collateral Murder" that showed a US Apache helicopter gunning down Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists?

Accepted Answer

A)   Warren Ellis
B)   Frank Derringer
C)   Warren Zevon
D)   Chelsea Manning

Question 7

Some argue that the media and political figures attempt to generate public concern about cybercrime in order to secure sectional interests. Becker (1963) would label this behaviour as _______________.?

Accepted Answer

A)   moral entrepreneurship
B)   dramatization
C)   secondary deviance
D)   moral panic

Question 8

This process allows communications to be encoded prior to transmission so that they will be unreadable if intercepted.?

Accepted Answer

A)   Formatting
B)   Bootstrapping
C)   Encryption
D)   Compression

Question 9

This form of hacktivism is the cyber-equivalent to the traditional protest method by which a particular site, associated with opposing or oppressive political interests, is physically occupied by activists.?

Accepted Answer

A)   Doxxing and leaking
B)   Website defacements
C)   Email bombs
D)   Virtual sit-ins and blockades

Question 10

Which hacker most likely coined the term "hacktivism"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Kevin Mitnick
B)   Omega
C)   TheJester
D)   Crash Override

Question 11

In 2010, Anonymous launched a DDoS campaign against various credit card and payment processing companies like Visa, PayPal, and Mastercard. This campaign was launched in retaliation for these companies cutting off donations to which organization?

Accepted Answer

A)   WikiLeaks
B)   Cult of the Dead Cow
C)   Anonymous
D)   Zapatistas

Question 12

Terrorist groups make use of the internet in support of their conventional, terrestrially based activities. Which of the following is one of the ways the textbook describes the internet being used to facilitate terrorist activities?

Accepted Answer

A)   Communication and coordination
B)   Propaganda, publicity and recruitment
C)   Information gathering
D)   All of the above
E)   None of the above

Question 13

According to Rid, the term "cyberwarfare" should may actually reduce the violence involved in other forms of warfare because it involves significant changes and advances in _______________.?

Accepted Answer

A)   sabotage
B)   espionage
C)   subversion
D)   All of the above
E)   None of the above

Question 14

_______________ works by hiding data within the digital code used to construct images.?

Accepted Answer

A)   Photo-masking
B)   Imprintography
C)   Stelliography
D)   Steganography

Question 15

In the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration created this federal agency to bolster the protection of critical information infrastructure.?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Department of Defence
B)   The Department of Homeland Security
C)   The Department of the Interior
D)   The Department of Energy

Question 16

This form of hacktivism attempts to ruin and alter online sites as a form of protest.?

Accepted Answer

A)   Website defacement
B)   Development of privacy and resistance tools
C)   Doxxing and leaking
D)   Virtual sit-ins and blockades

Question 17

_______________ was a hacker from Kosovo who compromised a retail company's system and obtained the names, passwords, email address, and other data of hundreds of thousands of people. He then combed through that data and leaked the information associated with over a thousand military and government employees to the Islamic State.?

Accepted Answer

A)   Ardit Ferizi
B)   John Stockton
C)   Abu Sayyaf
D)   Robert Mueller

Question 18

Which one of the following is not classified as part of a nation's critical information infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

A)   Telecommunications
B)   The Internet
C)   Hardware and software
D)   Water systems

Question 19

_______________ was a "digital weapon" deployed to sabotage Iranian nuclear enrichment efforts.?

Accepted Answer

A)   Mirai
B)   Stuxnet
C)   Lovebug
D)   AcidBurn

Question 20

A term commonly used to describe hacking for the purposes of political activism and protest is _______________.?

Accepted Answer

A)   cyberterrorism
B)   cultural hacking
C)   hacktivism
D)   cyberwarfare

Exam 4: Political Hacking