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Information Security

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1. Type of software attack where an attacker captures network traffic and stores it for retransmission at a later time to gain unauthorized access to a network.






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






3. 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






4. A ____ is a computer typically located in an area with limited security and loaded with software and data files that appear to be authentic - yet they are actually imitations of real data files.






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






6. Software written with malicious intent to cause annoyance or damage - need to attach to something (such as an executable file)






7. An attacker motivated by the ideology to attack computer or infrastructure networks.






8. Can use fingerprints or other unique characteristics of a person's face - hands - or eyes (irises and retinas) to authenticate a user.






9. Scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information






10. Software that can guess passwords






11. A set of permissions that are attached to an object.






12. A program or device that can monitor data traveling over a network. Sniffers can show - all the data being transmitted over a network - including passwords and sensitive information - tends to be a favorite weapon in the hacker's arsenal






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. In the context of SSL encryption - a message issued from the client to the server that contains information about what level of security the client's browser is capable of accepting and what type of encryption the client's browser can decipher (for e






15. Below 40% or above 50%






16. The geographical storage of your backups-safest place is a different place from where you keep your actual data






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






18. A threat to networked hosts in which the host is flooded with broadcast ping messages. A _____ _____ is a type of denial-of-service attack.






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






20. How many past backups you keep - what you did on your machine etc.






21. 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






22. Could become a key element in authentication in the future.






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






24. A framework for transporting authentication protocols instead of the authentication protocol itself.






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. A ____ tester has an in-depth knowledge of the network and systems being tested - including network diagrams - IP addresses - and even the source code of custom applications.






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






32. A ____ means that the application or service assigned to that port is listening for any instructions.






33. The X.500 standard defines a protocol for a client application to access an X.500 directory called ____.






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






35. An attack that sends unsolicited messages to Bluetooth-enabled devices.






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






37. People very knowledgeable about computers who use their knowledge to invade other people's computers






38. ____ involves stealing another person's personal information - such as a Social Security number - and then using the information to impersonate the victim - generally for financial gain.






39. An operating system that has been reengineered so that it is designed to be secure from the ground up is known as a ____.






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






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






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






43. 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 ____.






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






45. The process of verifying that your backups actually work






46. Hacker who exposes vulnerabilities for financial gain or malicious purpose.






47. The Chinese government uses _____ to prevent Internet content that it considers unfavorable from reaching its citizenry.






48. Suitable for what are called "high-volume service control applications" such as dial-in access to a corporate network.






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






50. ____ uses "speckling" and different colors so that no two spam e-mails appear to be the same.







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