Exam 9: Privacy, Security, and Ethics

The archiving and search features of the web make your online identity available indefinitely.

Rogue Wi-Fi hotspots imitate free hotspots and capture information,such as usernames and passwords,sent by users to legitimate sites.

________ is the illegal assumption of someone's identity for the purposes of economic gain.

These programs record virtually everything you do on your computer and are used by employers to search employee email and computer files.

How do firewalls work?

A ________ is someone who gains unauthorized access to computer systems.

Computer security focuses on protecting information,hardware,and software from unauthorized use as well as preventing or limiting the damage from intrusions,sabotage,and natural disasters.

If copyright-protected music is uploaded to a website,it is legal to download it.

Most browsers offer a privacy mode which ensures that your browsing activity is not recorded on your hard disk.

Privacy concerns the collection and use of data about individuals.

Most browsers offer this,which ensures that your browsing activity is not recorded on your hard disk.

This type of Wi-Fi hotspot operates close to a legitimate Wi-Fi hotspot and steals information such as usernames and passwords.

It is against the law for keyloggers to be deposited on your hard drive by the company you work for.

________ are invisible images or HTML code hidden within a web page or email message and are used to transmit information without your knowledge.

________ is the process of coding information to make it unreadable except to those who have a special piece of information known as a key.

________ store information about the current session,your general preferences,and your activity on the website.

________ are malicious programs that come into a computer system disguised as something else such as a free computer game or screen saver.

Cutting and pasting material from a website directly into your own report or paper without giving proper credit to the original source is unethical.

This uses software to try thousands of common words sequentially in an attempt to gain unauthorized access to a user's account.

A program that replicates itself and clogs computers and networks.