malicious attacks,threats andvulnerabilities

Question 1

attack tools(software programs) exploit software

Answer 1

incorporates known software vulnerabilities, data, and scripted commands to “exploit” a weakness in a computer system or IP host device

Question 2

password crackers

Answer 2

performs one of two functions: a Brute-force password attack to gain unauthorized access to a system or recovery of passwords stored as a cryptographic hash on a computer system.

Question 3

Keystroke loggers

Answer 3

surveillance software or hardware that can record to a log file every keystroke a user makes with a keyboard.

Question 4

Backdoors

Answer 4

hidden access by developers
hackers/attackers may use it to gain access

Question 5

data modification security breach

Answer 5

data that is intentionally or accidentally modified
incomplete
truncated(process of shortening data)

Question 6

give common threat types

Answer 6

malicious software
hardware or software failure
internal attacker
equipment theft

Question 7

four categories of attacksulge

Answer 7

fabrication
modification
interceptions
interruptions

Question 8

what is malicious software

Answer 8

any software that causes:
damage
modifies or deletes data
escalates security privileges

divulges private data

Question 9

virus

Answer 9

Attaches itself to or copies itself into another program on a computer

Tricks the computer into following instructions not intended by the original program developers

infects a host program and may cause that program to replicate itself onto other computers