IT - Week 9 & 10

When someone uses your personal information to pose as you, this is

• a) identity theft.

• b) white-hat hacking

• c) cybersecurity

• d) backdoor rootkit.

Viruses that load from USB drives left connected to computers when computers are turned on are known as

• a) script viruses

• b) polymorphic viruses

• c) encryption viruses

• d) boot-sector viruses

A packet analyzer is called a sniffer because

• a) it filters out spam

• b) it starts a denial-of-service attack.

• c) it captures and reads data inside each packet

• d) it detects high-speed transmissions.

Computer viruses can be spread by

• a) sharing flash drives

• b) downloading and running a file attached to an email

• c) downloading a song from a peer-to-peer sharing site

• d) all of the above

A program that takes complete control of your computer without your knowledge is

• a) botnet

• b) rootkit

• c) VPN

• d) Sniffer

Authentication techniques that rely on personal biological traits are called

• a) Trojan horses.

• b) Scanner

• c) Botnets

• d) Biometrics

Antivirus software prevents infection by recording key attributes about your files and checking to see if they change over time in a process called

• a) updating

• b) quarantine

• c) signature

• d) inoculation

A surge protector may look like just another power strip but it also can

• a) detect viruses.

• b) prevent theft.

• c) save your device if a voltage spike is sent through the electrical system.

• d) help manage heat.

The combination of media, Internet, entertainment, and phone services into a single device illustrates the principal of

• 1. digital collusion

• 1. digital cohesion.

• 1. digital combination.

• 1. digital convergence.

When analog data is measured and converted to a stream of numerical values, this is referred to as __________ the data.

• compressing

• streamlining

• digitizing

• upstreaming