Chapter 6 Quiz

A set of instructions to increase a programmer's pay rate by 10% is hidden inside an authorized program. It changes and updates the payroll file. What is this computer fraud technique called?

Trojan Horse

Fraud perpetrators threaten to harm a company if it does not pay a specified amount of money. What is this fraud technique called?

cyber-extortion

Someone redirects a website's traffic to a bogus website, usually to gain access to personal and confidential information. What is this computer fraud technique called?

pharming

A perpetrator attacks phone systems to obtain free phone line access or uses telephone lines to transmit viruses and to access, steal, and destroy data. What is this computer fraud technique called?

phreaking

What type of software conceals processes, files, network connections, memory addresses, systems utility programs, and system data from the operating system and other programs?

rootkit

Interest calculations are truncated at two decimal places, and the excess decimals are put into an account the perpetrator controls. What is this fraud called?

round-down fraud

Techniques used to obtain confidential information, often by tricking people, are referred to as what?

social engineering

What type of software secretly collects personal information about users and sends it to someone else without the user's permission?

spyware

Which computer fraud technique involves a set of instructions hidden inside a calendar utility that copies itself each time the utility is enabled until memory is filled and the system crashes?

virus

Which type of computer attack takes place between the time a software vulnerability is discovered and the time software developers release a software patch that fixes the problem?

zero-day attack