Exam 4: Ethics and Information Security: MIS Business Concerns

What is it called when a hacker looks through your trash to find personal information?

Using ones social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other valuable information is called ________.

What includes a variety of threats such as viruses, worms, and Trojan horses?

What are computer viruses that wait for a specific date before executing their instructions?

What includes individuals that seek notoriety or want to make a social or political point such as WikiLeaks?

What is the category of computer security that addresses the protection of data from unauthorized disclosure and confirmation of data source authenticity?

What outlines the corporate guidelines or principles governing employee online communications?

Which of the below represents the definition of information compliance?

What is the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, book, or video game?

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 single-factor authentication?

Ransomware is a form of social engineering in which one individual lies to obtain confidential data about another individual.

As the President of a local trade company, Kristin is faced with leadership, ethical, and operational decisions on a daily basis. Kristen's responsibilities include examining the organizational resource of information and regulating its definitions, uses, value, and distribution ensuring it has the types of information required to function and grow effectively. What is Kristin overseeing for the company?

White-hat hackers have philosophical and political reasons for breaking into systems and will often deface the website as a protest.

A certificate authority is a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable to a digital signature.

Backdoor programs open a way into the network for future attacks.

Fair information practices is a general term for a set of standards governing the collection and use of personal data and addressing issues of privacy and accuracy.

BYOD policies offer four basic options, including unlimited access for personal devices, access only to nonsensitive systems and data, access, but with IT control over personal devices, apps, and stored data, access, but preventing local storage of data on personal devices.

Script kiddies or script bunnies find hacking code on the Internet and click-and-point their way into systems to cause damage or spread viruses.

Two of the common forms of viruses discussed in the book include the Trojan-horse virus and the acceptance-of-service attack.