Connect Ch 9

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

The most significant concerns for implementation of computer technology involve _______, security, and ethics.

A tracking cookie is generally used by an advertising company affiliated with a website you have visited to keep track of your web activity as you move from one site to the next.

Web bugs are usually hidden within the HTML code for a web page or in an e-mail message as an invisible image.

Identity theft and mistaken identity are the same.

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

`This type of computer criminal creates and distributes malicious programs.

Which of the following is the most widely used wireless network encryption for home wireless networks?

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.

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

Spy removal programs are designed to detect and remove various types of privacy threats.

According to which law is it illegal for an owner of a commercial program to make backup copies for their personal use and resell or give them away?

People that collect and sell personal data are called _______.

The essential element that controls how computers are used is a law.

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

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

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

The use of the Internet, smartphones, or other devices to send or post content intended to hurt or embarrass another person.

This is a legal concept that gives content creators the right to control use and distribution of their work.

Computer criminals that create and spread viruses are punished under this law.

Which of the following is not malware?

Programs used to secretly record an individual's activities on the Internet are called _______.

Biometric scanning devices are used to scan employee identification cards.

Corporations often use this to prevent copyright violations.

nformation systems consist of people, procedures, software, hardware, data, and the Internet.

A program that replicates itself and clogs computers and networks.

A _______ acts as a security buffer between a corporation's private network and all external networks.

This law gives you the right to look at your personal records held by government agencies.

Small data files that are deposited on a user's hard disk when they visit a website are called _______.

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

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

Free computer games and free screen saver programs are typical carriers of _______.

Which type of program would likely be used by investigators to record a potential suspects' Internet activities?

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

Privacy concerns the collection and use of data about individuals.

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

Which among the following is a fraudulent or deceptive act designed to trick individuals on the Internet into spending time or money for little or no return?

These are used by advertisers to keep track of your web activity as you move from one site to the next.

Which among the following is a way to shut down an ISP or website?

It is highly likely that each one of us has an electronic profile created by information resellers.

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

The most common protocol for website encryption is https (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure).

Posting personal information such as your birth date, family member names, and home address, does not increase your risk of identity theft.

Which of the following is not a measure to protect computer security?

_______ is concerned with protecting software and data from unauthorized tampering or damage.

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