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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. Below 70 degrees or above 75 degrees






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






7. A form of filtering that blocks only sites specified as harmful.






8. The most popular attack toolkit - which has almost half of the attacker toolkit market is ____.






9. Broadcast storms can be prevented with ____.






10. 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.






11. Magnetic tape drives - hard drives - optical media (CD or DVD) - solid-state media (flash drives or SD)






12. A feature of Windows that is intended to provide users with control of their digital identities while helping them to manage privacy.






13. A hacker who exposes security flaws in applications and operating systems so manufacturers can fix them before they become widespread problems.






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






15. Hides inside other software - usually as an attachment or a downloadable file






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






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






18. 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.






19. Countless requests for a TCP connection sent to an FTP server - web server - or system attached to the internet.






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






21. 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






22. Due to the limitations of online guessing - most password attacks today use ____.






23. 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.






24. The identification of a user based on a physical characteristic - such as a fingerprint - iris - face - voice - or handwriting






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






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






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






28. Related to the perception - thought process - and understanding of the user.






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






30. Attacker sets up a rogue DNS server that responds to legitimate requests with IP addresses for malicious or non-existent websites.






31. A ____ is designed to separate a nonsecured area from a secured area.






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






33. Provides a greater degree of security by implementing port-based authentication.






34. Using video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific and limited set of receivers is called ____.






35. Requires that if the fraudulent application of a process could potentially result in a breach of security - then the process should be divided between two or more individuals.






36. How secure the data in your backups is-can use physical security or encryption






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






38. Often used for managing user access to one or more systems.






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






40. Although brute force and dictionary attacks were once the primary tools used by attackers to crack an encrypted password - today attackers usually prefer ____.






41. An AP that is set up by an attacker.






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. A feature that controls a device's tolerance for unanswered service requests and helps to prevent a DoS attack.






50. Using a single authentication credential that is shared across multiple networks.