INFO Ch8

A salesperson clicks repeatedly on the online ads of a competitor's in order to drive the competitor's advertising costs up. This is an example of:

Click fraud

A foreign country attempting to access government networks in order to disable a national power grid would be an example of:

Cyberwarfare

Using numerous computers to inundate and overwhelm the network from numerous launch points is called a(n) ___ attack.

DDoS

___ is a crime in which an imposter obtains key pieces of personal information to impersonate someone else.

Identity theft

___ refers to the policies, procedures, and tech measures used to prevent unauthorized access to IS.

Security

An example of phishing is:

Setting up fake medical website that asks users for confidential information

Tricking employees into revealing their passwords by pretending to be a legitimate member of a company is called:

Social engineering

A keylogger is a type of:

Spyware

Which of the following is the single greatest cause of network security breaches?

User lack of knowledge

A practice in which eavesdroppers drive by buildings or park outside and try to intercept wireless network traffic is referred to as:

War driving

An independent computer program that copies itself from one computer to another over a network is called a:

Worm