IT - Viruses

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Identity Theft & Hackers; Computer Viruses; Online Annoyances & Social Engineering

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Threats to Digital Assets

Question 2

Most financially damaging

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Theft

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White-Hat, Black-Hat, Grey-Hat

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Types of Hackers

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Ethical Hackers

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White-Hat

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Hacker control of a computer

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Zombie

Question 6

Causes system shut down; overload of requests

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DOS (Denial of Service) Attack

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Virus - Executes when a computer boots up

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Boot-Sector Virus

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Virus - Executes when certain conditions or dates are reached

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Logic/Time Bomb Virus

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Virus - Spread on their own w/ no human interaction

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Worm

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Virus - Series of commands with malicious intent

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Script & Macro Virus

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Virus - Spread as attachments to email

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E-mail Virus

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Virus - Holds files “hostage” by encrypting them (ask for ransom)

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Encryption Virus

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Virus that Is able to mutate & change (hard to catch)

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Polymorphic

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Malware that hacks and displays advertisements

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Adware

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Malware that hacks and transmits information

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Spyware

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Small text files received when you visit a website - helps with marketing, may invade privacy but is not a threat

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Cookies

Question 17

Lures people into revealing information

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Phishing

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Malicious code that is planted on a computer to gather information

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Pharming

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Hardware/software that is included with Windows & OSX

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Firewall

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14+ characters; combination of letters, numbers, symbols, no dictionary words

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Strong Password guidelines

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Incremental (partial) & Image (system)

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Types of Backup