Exam 4: Ethics and Information Security: MIS Business Concerns

A zombie farm is a group of computers on which a hacker has planted zombie programs.

What includes threats, negative remarks, or defamatory comments transmitted via the Internet or posted on the website?

A process of providing a user with permission including access levels and abilities such as file access, hours of access, and amount of allocated storage space is called authentication.

Jackie is the head teller at ABC Bank and her responsibilities include overseeing and managing the tellers, resolving customer issues, and developing and implementing systems for an optimal and efficient team. She notices a steady increase in customer complaints and tracks back to find that the complaints started right around the time ABC Bank provided Internet access to all employees. Jackie watched the tellers closely and found that they were spending significant amounts of time playing Internet games and posting on Facebook. Which policy should the company implement to help eliminate this problem?

Which of the following definitions represents Internet censorship?

What is spyware?

One of the most ineffective ways to set up authentication techniques is by setting up user ID's and passwords.

DDoS stands for one of the common forms of viruses, that attack multiple computers to flood a website until it slows or crashes. What does DDoS stand for?

What is a phone scam that attempts to defraud people by asking them to call a bogus telephone number to "confirm" their account information?

What is a type of malware designed to trick victims into giving up personal information to purchase or download useless and potentially dangerous software?

Which of the following terms refers to a contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions?

Epolicies are policies and procedures that address information management along with the ethical use of computers and the Internet in the business environment.

What includes threats, negative remarks, or defamatory comments transmitted via the Internet or posted on the website?

What kind of policy can a company implement that can help diminish the activity of sending unsolicited email?

Worm spreads itself, not only from file to file, but also from computer to computer. The primary difference between a virus and a worm is that a virus must attach to something, such as an executable file, to spread. Worms do not need to attach to anything to spread and can tunnel themselves into computers.

Identity theft is the forging of someone's identity for the purpose of fraud.

Which of the following occurs when organizations use software that filters content, such as email, to prevent the accidental or malicious transmission of unauthorized information?

Which of the below represents the definition of information management?

What is vishing?

Information property is the category of computer security that addresses the protection of data from unauthorized disclosure and confirmation of data source authenticity.