Exam 10: Ethics, Privacy, and Security

Evelyn Birch is a freelance content writer whose desktop computer has been infected with a software program that installed itself without her knowledge. The program monitors the websites she visits, her email communications, etc. Data gathered from the monitoring activity is sent to a remotely located hacker. Which of the following is most likely to have infected Evelyn's computer?

________ consists of intangible assets which are expressions of the human mind that give the creator of the property the right to its commercial value.

Discuss how malware and botnets threaten the security of intellectual property.

The term ________ refers to configured computers with specific vulnerabilities so they can attract different varieties of malware in the wild, study their properties, and find out who started them.

Discuss some of the possible drawbacks of implementing surveillance technologies at workplaces.

Which of the following is a reason why humans are soft targets for social engineering?

A drawback of using proxy servers for online anonymity is the need to rely on the company that operates the proxy servers and its promise to protect its customers' identities.

Margaret O'Connor is an upcoming poet from Georgia who recently updated her blog with her piece of writing titled, "Shadows." One of her readers copied her piece onto his own blog and passed it off as his original work. This is an example of ________.

What is utilitarianism and how is it different from natural laws and rights?

A ________ is a self-replicating program that sends copies to other nodes on a computer network and may contain malicious code intended to cause damage.

Which of the following precautions need to be taken in order to create a secure password?

Which of the following is a feature of public key encryption?

What is a proxy server? What function does it serve?

In Internet terminology, a worm refers to a(n)________.

Which of the following is a technical control that helps secure information flow in an organization?

________ is one way of recovering systems in an incidence response plan.

Which of the following statements is true of honeypots?

A ________ is an intermediary server that receives and analyzes requests from clients and then directs them to their destinations.

The downside of using surveillance techniques at work is that it pits management against staff.

A(n)________ lists out and rates the vulnerabilities of an organization.