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

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Through social engineering,hackers use their social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other valuable information.

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What is a mail bomb?

Information management examines the organizational resource of information and regulates its definitions,uses,value,and distribution ensuring it has the types of data/information required to function and grow effectively.

Dumpster diving is another security breach for companies and is where people not associated with the company jump into the company's outside garbage bins and try to gather and steal any valuable company products they can resell on eBay.

What is the forging of the return address on an email so that the email message appears to come from someone other than the actual sender?

Which of the following is included in the four quadrants of ethical and legal behavior?

_________ hat hackers work at the request of the system owners to find system vulnerabilities and plug the holes.

Janet is a financial aid counselor at a local community college and she shares an office with her three coworkers.Janet feels safe in her office environment and frequently leaves her username and password on a sticky note next to her computer.Without realizing it Janet is creating the potential for which type of information security breach to occur?

Companies do not need a privacy policy for email because an employee's work email is private and cannot be viewed by the company.

What is information security?

What is a special class of adware that collects data about the user and transmits it over the Internet without the user's knowledge or permission?

What is a technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft,usually by means of fraudulent emails that look as though they came from legitimate businesses?

Phishing expedition is a masquerading attack that combines spam with spoofing.The perpetrator sends millions of spam emails that appear to be from a respectable company.The emails contain a link to a website that is designed to look exactly like the company's website.The victim is encouraged to enter his or her username,password,and sometimes credit card information.

What is a program that secretly takes over another computer for the purpose of launching attacks on other computers?

The _________ of information act allows any person to examine government records unless it would cause an invasion of privacy.

Biometrics is the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic,such as a fingerprint,iris,face,voice,or handwriting.

Phishing reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites.

Drive-by hacking is a computer attack where an attacker accesses a wireless computer network,intercepts data,uses network services,and/or sends attack instructions without entering the office or organization that owns the network

Which of the following types of viruses spread themselves,not just from file to file,but also from computer to computer?