Exam 17: Computer Crime and Digital Forensics

Which of the following refers to an e-mail sent out intending to frighten people about a virus threat that,in fact,does not exist?

Thrill-seeker hackers break into computer systems for entertainment.

A dollar bill has a watermark image which is hidden inside the other markings on the bill.This process of hiding information is known as ____.

_____ is a hardware/software combination tool which is a USB flash drive that stores,launches,and runs software on any computer.

One of the new problems facing digital forensics experts is the problem of access to cloud computing data.

_____ denial-of-service attacks are from multiple computers that flood a server or network with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes.

The process of scrambling the contents of a file so that one cannot read it without the right decryption key is known as ____.

Which of the following viruses does not replicate itself?

_____ are people who would like to be hackers,but because of very little technical expertise,they download click-and-point software that automatically does the hacking for them.

Which of the following was the most the most common type of computer worm during 2007 and 2008?

An interesting feature of the _____ worm was that it downloaded the latest version of itself when it entered a computer connected to the Internet and secretly recorded the normal readings and played those back while it did its other work.

Which of the following refers to politically motivated hackers who use the Internet to send a political message of some kind?

Key logger software is a program that,when installed on a computer,records every _____ and ____.

_____ software is a program used to snoop on people to find out what they are doing on a particular computer by recording every mouse click and keystroke.

Solid-state hard drives (SSDs)are based on _____ memory and do not function in the same way as magnetic hard drives.

The process of blacking out portions of a document,usually to protect confidential information,so that it cannot be recovered later is known as ____.

The _____ option helps a person rearrange data on one's hard disk and overwrite deleted files.

What was the main objective of the Storm botnet?

_____ are politically motivated and seek to cause harm to people or destroy critical systems or information.

A difference between the Slammer and Stuxnet worm was that the Slammer: