Exam 9: Securing Your System: Protecting Your Digital Data and Devices

Devices that use a unique personal characteristic, such as a fingerprint, in place of a password are called ________ authentication devices.

The terms virus and worm actually mean the same thing.

A ________ allows a hacker to gain access to your computer and take almost complete control of it without your knowledge.

For security reasons, you should be extremely wary of opening e-mail ________ such as Word files.

You can block logical ports from invaders and make your computer invisible to others on the Internet by installing ________.

A denial-of-service attack can be used to deny hackers access to a computer system.

________ occur when a website downloads harmful software onto your computer.

Which of the following classifications of viruses can change its own code to avoid detection?

A(n)________ virus is designed to infect multiple file types in an effort to fool antivirus software.

Most often, hackers initiate a DDoS attack by creating and activating ________ computers.

A(n)________ protects a computer against power surges.

Which of the following statements about cookies is NOT true?

You should use the same password for each system or website you need to access.

A(n)________ can help block unwanted, unsolicited e-mail.

________ hackers break into systems for non-malicious reasons such as to test system security vulnerabilities.

All viruses cause serious destruction of computer data.

An encryption virus replicates itself onto a hard drive's master boot record.

A virus signature is a portion of virus code that is unique to a particular computer virus.

A ________ is a virus that is attached to documents such as Word or Excel files.

Rules for creating passwords include all of the following EXCEPT ________.