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Comptia Security +: Vocab

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1. Telephone tapping (or wire tapping/wiretapping in the US) is the monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party - often by covert means. The telephone tap or wire tap received its name because historically - the monitoring connec






2. In a computer system (or cryptosystem or algorithm) these are methods of bypassing normal authentication or securing remote access to a computer - while attempting to remain hidden from casual inspection.






3. A meme and a joke are the same thing. e.g. When someone says to delete a file that is really just fine and they call it a virus






4. A mechanism by which connections to TCP services on a system are allowed or disallowed






5. The government required overwrite rate if you are formatting a drive in such a manner as to make it nearly impossible to retrieve data from it






6. Countermeasures / safeguards fall into these categories. Detective measures detect - preventive measures prevent - and corrective measures correct.






7. a.k.a. The Chinese wall. Nash Bridges - Bridge wall - Chinese wall. Dynamically changes access control to prevent unauthorized access.






8. Assuming someone's session who is unaware of what you are doing






9. Methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs - or defects - in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making it behave as expected






10. Access control method for database based on the content of the database to provide granular access






11. The amount of users that the system can process in a given amount of time. A typical acceptable amount is 10/minute






12. This is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communications.






13. An instance of a scripting language






14. In computer networking - this is the method for finding a host's hardware address when only its IP address is known. Due to the overwhelming prevalence of IPv4 and ethernet - ARP is primarily used to translate ethernet MAC addresses from IP addresses






15. The frequency with which a threat is expected to occur.






16. Same as AES Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - also known as Rijndael - is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the US government. It is expected to be used worldwide and analyzed extensively - as was the case with its predecessor -






17. This is an attack in which an attacker is able to read - insert and modify at will - messages between two parties without either party knowing that the link between them has been compromised. The attacker must be able to observe and intercept message






18. Occupant Emergency Plan - Employees are the most important!






19. Closed Circuit Television






20. A RFC standard. A mechanism for performing commands on a remote system






21. Also known as Rijndael - is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the US government. It is expected to be used worldwide and analyzed extensively - as was the case with its predecessor - the Data Encryption Standard (DES). AES was adopt






22. The act of identifying yourself. Providing your identity to a system






23. Provides a means to obtain passwords or encryption keys and thus bypass other security measures. This can be accomplished through hardware or software means.






24. A computer program (or set of programs) that translates text written in a computer language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language).






25. Among the most common types of viruses and the least damaging - these are hidden within applications that must be executed in order to execute the virus.






26. In the context of computer software - a Trojan horse is a malicious program that is disguised as or embedded within legitimate software.






27. In cryptanalysis - a brute force attack is a method of defeating a cryptographic scheme by trying a large number of possibilities. In most schemes - the theoretical possibility of a brute force attack is recognised - but it is set up in such a way th






28. The most popular computer language used to create - modify - retrieve and manipulate data from relational database management systems. The language has evolved beyond its original purpose to support object-relational database management systems. It i






29. Also civil law






30. A number of computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing and deploying cross-platform applications. Java is used in a wide variety of computing platforms spanning from embedded devi






31. The process of reducing your risks to an acceptable level based on your risk analysis






32. Virtual memory is an area of 'memory' that is not in physical memory (RAM) but on the disk system to allow for extra 'memory' processing area above what is available through RAM. This is the pagefile.sys file on a Windows system. Many Windows OSs req






33. Someone whose hacking is primarily targeted at the phone systems






34. A logic bomb is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met.






35. Enticing people to hit your honeypot to see how they try to access your system.






36. Demilitarized Zone. A part of the network that is neither part of the internal network nor directly part of the Internet. Basically a network sitting between two networks.






37. The real cost of acquiring/maintaining/developing a system






38. 'If you cant see it - its secure'. Bad policy to live by.






39. An AAA (Authentication - Authorization - and Accounting) protocol for applications such as network access or IP mobility. It is intended to work in both local and roaming situations.






40. The ability to have more than one thread associated with a process






41. Internet Relay Chat.






42. A type of virus that changes its telltale code segments so that it ' looks' different from one infected file to another - thus making detection more difficult.






43. In computing - the Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol authenticates a user to an Internet access provider. CHAP provides protection against playback attack by the peer through the use of an incrementally changing identifier and of a variable






44. The fraudulent appropriation by a person to his own use of property or money entrusted to that person's care but owned by someone else.






45. The EU spec. If databases exist - users are allowed to check data into them - allowed to change them if wrong - etc.






46. In the broadest sense - a fraud is a deception made for personal gain






47. Once authenticated - the level of access you have to a system






48. Affects the section of a floppy or hard disk that contains operating system and file information. Each time you start your PC with an infected floppy in the drive - the virus can spread.






49. A site that is ready and available within minutes or hours to continue processing. This is a site that is fully configured and ready to go.






50. The output of a hash function is a digest.