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Information Security

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. An attack where the goal is to extract personal - financial or confidential information from the victim by using services such as the telephone or VOIP.






2. An attack that forces a user to unintentionally click a link.






3. Sending extremely critcal - derogatory - and oftern vulgar email messages or newsgroup postings to other user on the internet or online services






4. Attack computer systems by transmitting a virus hoax - with a real virus attached. By masking the attack in a seemingly legitimate message - unsuspecting users more readily distribute the message and send the attack on to their co-workers and friends






5. During RADIUS authentication the AP - serving as the authenticator that will accept or reject the wireless device - creates a data packet from this information called the ____.






6. Peering over the shoulder of someone to see the contents on that person's computer or cell phone screen.






7. A ____ can block malicious content in "real time" as it appears without first knowing the URL of a dangerous site.






8. ____ is an image spam that is divided into multiple images.






9. A means of managing and presenting computer resources by function without regard to their physical layout or location.






10. Considered a more "real world" access control than the other models because the access is based on a user's job function within an organization.






11. The set of letters - symbols - and characters that make up the password are known as a ____ set.






12. A ____ is a set of software tools used by an attacker to hide the actions or presence of other types of malicious software - such as Trojans - viruses - or worms.






13. A variety of threats such as viruses - worms - and Trojan horses






14. A technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft - usually by means of fraudulent e-mail






15. Malicious or accidental threats by employees. (ex. door to secure building left propped open.)






16. Below 70 degrees or above 75 degrees






17. An attacker slips through a secure area following a legitimate employee.






18. An attempt to discover an encryption key or password by trying numerous possible character combinations. usually - a brute force attack is performed rapidly by a program designed for that purpose.






19. A commonly used technique by pornography sites where a user gets "locked" in a web site.






20. When DNS servers exchange information among themselves it is known as a ____.






21. The most common protocol suite used today for local area networks (LANs) as well as the Internet is ____.






22. A password-protected and encrypted file that holds an individual's identification information - including a public key and a private key. The individual's public key is used to verify the sender's digital signature - and the private key allows the in






23. Hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network






24. A ____ is a network set up with intentional vulnerabilities.






25. The breadth of your back-up (what types of files you will back up-media - documents - OS - etc)






26. Mass mailings sent as Instant Messages to users. Often these can feature links to explicit porn sites.






27. Form of phishing that targets wealthy individuals.






28. The ____ model is the least restrictive.






29. Generally represent disgruntled employees and alike who are seeking to perform vengeful acts against their current or former employer.






30. Can be used to determine whether new IP addresses are attempting to probe the network.






31. How often you perform your backups (cost-benefit analysis of backing up)






32. Keeps a record of the state of a connection between an internal computer and an external device and then makes decisions based on the connection as well as the conditions.






33. An independently rotating large cups affixed to the top of a fence prevent the hands of intruders from gripping the top of a fence to climb over it.






34. ____ involves horizontally separating words - although it is still readable by the human eye.






35. In a ____ attack - attackers can attackers use hundreds or thousands of computers in an attack against a single computer or network.






36. Altering the contents of packets as they travel over the Internet or altering data on computer disks after penetrating a network. For example - an attacker might place a tap on a network line to intercept packets as they leave the computer. The attac






37. Sending high volumes of ICMP (usually ping) packets to a target.






38. Business ____ theft involves stealing proprietary business information such as research for a new drug or a list of customers that competitors are eager to acquire.






39. Users who access a Web server are usually restricted to the ____ directory.






40. Typically used on home routers that allow multiple users to share one IP address received from an Internet service provider (ISP).






41. A user accessing a computer system must present credentials or ____ when logging on to the system.






42. Software that can guess passwords






43. An attack that accesses unauthorized information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection - often between cell phones and laptop computers.






44. An attack that intercepts legitimate communication between two victims and captures - analyzes and possibly alters the data packets before sending a fake reply.






45. Viruses and worms are said to be self-____.






46. Forging of the return address on an e-mail so that the e-mail message appears to come from someone other than the actual sender. This is not a virus but rather a way by which virus authors conceal their identities as they send out viruses.






47. A technique that allows private IP addresses to be used on the public Internet.






48. Legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment and cause some kind of business-affecting incident <tell people passwords - etc>






49. Software that comes hidden in free downloadable software and tracks online movements - mines the information stored on a computer - or uses a computer's CPU and storage for some task the user knows nothing about - can cause extremely slow performance






50. Fire - extreme weather - flooding - extreme temperatures - extreme humidity.