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___________-hat hackers break into other people's computer systems and may just look around or may steal and destroy information.

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Question 22

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What is the most secure type of authentication?

A) Something the user knows such as a user ID and password
B) Something the user has such as a smart card or token
C) Something that is part of the user such as a fingerprint or voice signature
D) All of these

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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Who are those who seek to cause harm to people or to destroy critical systems or information and use the Internet as a weapon of mass destruction?

The most common type of defense within detection and response technologies is _________ software.

What is social engineering?

Intrusion detection software (IDS)searches out patterns in information and network traffic to indicate __________ and quickly respond to prevent any harm.

Which of the following is not one of the five steps for creating an information security plan?

_________ have philosophical and political reasons for breaking into systems and will often deface the website as a protest.

___________ attack computer systems by transmitting a virus hoax,with a real virus attached.

_________ scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information.

___________ is a method for confirming users' identities.

A(n)_________ is hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network.

Who works at the request of the system owners to find system vulnerabilities and plug the holes?

Who breaks into other people's computer systems and just looks around or steals and destroys information?

A(n)_________ is software written with malicious intent to cause annoyance or damage.

Describe the relationships and differences between hackers and viruses.

Which of the following can be completed by encryption?

What identifies the rules required to maintain information security?

___________ diving is a form of social engineering when a hacker looks through people's trash to find personal information.

What floods a website with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes the site?