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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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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. Motivated by a desire to cause social change - trying to get media attention by disrupting services - or promoting a message by changing information on public websites.






4. A firewall capable only of examining packets individually. Stateless firewalls perform more quickly than stateful firewalls - but are not as sophisticated.






5. Small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically






6. The act of driving while running a laptop configured to detect and capture wireless data transmissions.






7. Sifting through a company's garbage to find information to help break into their computers






8. These access points are serious threats to network security because they allow attackers to intercept the RF signal and bypass network security to attack the network or capture sensitive data.






9. It accepts spoken words for input as if they had been typed on the keyboard.






10. The time it takes for a key to be pressed and then released.






11. A ____ attack is similar to a passive man-in-the-middle attack.






12. An authentication system developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and used to verify the identity of networked users.






13. 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.






14. Sending high volumes of UDP requests to a target.






15. 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.






16. Broadcast storms can be prevented with ____.






17. A key encryption technique for wireless networks that uses keys both to authenticate network clients and to encrypt data in transit.






18. Windows Live ID was originally designed as a ____ system that would be used by a wide variety of Web servers.






19. A secret combination of letters - numbers - and/or characters that only the user should know.






20. Sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using the internet or other digital communication devices.






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






22. Below 40% or above 50%






23. To create a rainbow table - each ____ begins with an initial password that is encrypted.






24. An authentication service commonly used on UNIX devices that communicates by forwarding user authentication information to a centralized server.






25. Set of rules that allow or deny traffic






26. A program that is automatically downloaded to your computer without your consent or even your knowledge.






27. Forwards packets across computer networks.






28. Content filtering - encryption - firewalls






29. ____ IP addresses are IP addresses that are not assigned to any specific user or organization.






30. A standard that provides a predefined framework for hardware and software developers who need to implement access control in their devices or applications.






31. An attack that targets a computer's physical components and peripherals. (ie. hard disk - motherboard - cabling - etc.)






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






33. A ____ virus infects the Master Boot Record of a hard disk drive.






34. Software attack using special monitoring software to gain access to private communications on the network wire or across a wireless network. (aka sniffing attack)






35. In a ____ infection - a virus injects itself into the program's executable code instead of at the end of the file.






36. A device that is around the same size as a credit card - containing embedded technologies that can store information and small amounts of software to perform some limited processing






37. Use multiple infrared beams that are aimed across a doorway and positioned so that as a person walks through the doorway some beams are activated.






38. These attacks may allow an attacker to construct LDAP statements based on user input statements.






39. Indicates when an account is no longer active.






40. Can be accidental or intentional - internal or external. (ex. back-hoe operator performing legitimate construction cuts cables leading into a facility.)






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






42. If a password is communicated across a network to log on to a remote system - it is vulnerable to ______.






43. When organizations use software that filters content to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information






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






45. ____ can be prewired for electrical power as well as wired network connections.






46. 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.






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






48. A ____ does not serve clients - but instead routes incoming requests to the correct server.






49. 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






50. There are almost ____ different Microsoft Windows file extensions that could contain a virus.