TIA Chapters 9-12

Question 1

adware

Answer 1

software that displays sponsered ads in a section of your browser window or as a pop-up ad box

Question 2

black hat hacker

Answer 2

villanous hacker

Question 3

bomb software

Answer 3

will destroy data if repeated attempts are made to crack passwords

Question 4

boot-sector virus

Answer 4

replicates itself to the hard drive’s master boot record, starts before anti-virus, usually from flash drives

Question 5

botnet

Answer 5

large group of software programs, robots or bots, that runs autonomously on zombie computers

Question 6

DOS/denial of service

Answer 6

legitimate users are denied access to a computer system because a hacker is repeatedly making requests thru a computer taken over as a zombie

Question 7

DDOS/distributed denial of service

Answer 7

launches attacks through more thatn one zombie

Question 8

drive-by download

Answer 8

use of malicious software to attack your computer by downloading harmful programs onto your computer, without your knowledge, while you are surfing a website