csci quiz 2

sending an email or text to a computer user requesting personal information such as credit cards, drivers license, purpose is to steal your identity

• phishing

• pharming

• spyware

• viruses

software that sends you to a different link than you were trying to access

• phishing

• pharming

• spyware

• viruses

is a program that is downloaded to your computer from the web and watches what you are doing. There are many different varieties of these. One common one is a tool that keeps track of your key strokes. It uses this to obtain passwords and other such mischief.

• phishing

• pharming

• spyware

• viruses

1. a program that sole intent is to harm your computer in some fashion.

• phishing

• pharming

• spyware

• viruses

pretends to be one type of software, but is something else. For instance, downloading an anti-virus program from the web that is in fact mostly a piece of spyware.

• trojan horses

• ransomware

• hackers

• crackers

• white-hat kackers

1. This is a somewhat new malware. Currently it takes two basic forms. Someone gets access to your files or information.

1. If they get personal information, they may notify you and try to blackmail you into paying them money.

1. If they get access to some of your files, they may lock/encrypt the files so that you no longer have access to them without paying
   

• trojan horses

• ransomware

• hackers

• crackers

• white-hat kackers

1. 
   are hackers that break into things,

2. usually do this for some sort of personal gain, usually financial gain. But not all hackers are these

• trojan horses

• ransomware

• hacking

• crackers

• white-hat kackers

1. is the ability to break into a network or computer system and snoop around and possibly create mischief.

• trojan horses

• ransomware

• hacking

• crackers

• white-hat kackers

1. are the good guy hackers that are usually used to test security of networks or software.

• trojan horses

• ransomware

• hacking

• crackers

• white-hat kackers

1. is a network that requires special software to access. The identities of dark net users and where they are located (IP and physical address) stay hidden and the users cannot be traced.

• dark web/dark net

• data transfer with https

• social media and mobile computers

• school accounts

• deep web/deep net