Exam 6: Internet Security

With the popularity of sites that allow users to send very short updates of approximately ____________________ characters or less to their friends, the ability to abbreviate links to Web sites has become a necessity.

If you click a link in a phishing email, you will likely be taken to ____.

Users with Facebook accounts can "____________________" the Facebook Security page to make it easy to view security updates when viewing their own pages.

____________________ components are Microsoft's technology for writing small applications that perform some action in Web pages.

MATCHING -user has no control over or knowledge of the ads

MATCHING -many freeware and shareware programs are sold as this

A DoS filter can help defend against DoS attacks.

Name and describe the three basic types of computer security threats.

A(n) ____ is a formula or set of steps to solve a particular problem.

____ is the process of associating a person and his identification with a very high level of assurance.

Malware is short for malfunctioning freeware.

A Web client firewall might be a dedicated ____________________, or a program running on the Web client computer.

A bulkhead is a software program or hardware device that controls access between two networks.

A counterstrike is a procedure that recognizes, reduces, or eliminates a threat.

A digital certificate contains verification from a trusted third party, called a(n) ____________________.

Web pages secured by SSL have URLs that begin with ____.

According to the text, any act or object that endangers an asset is known as a(n) ____.

The ____ firewall software program offers a free version.

Software that gathers personal information about the user's behavior or the user's computer without their knowledge is called infoware.

Unencrypted information is called ____.