Week Nine

Question 1

Acceptable use policy (AUP):

Answer 1

Defines acceptable uses of the firm’s information resources and computing equipment, including desktop and laptop computers, wireless devices, telephones, and the Internet, and specifies consequences for noncompliance

Question 2

Malware:

Answer 2

1. Computer viruses
2. Worms
3. Trojan horses
4. Ransomware
5. SQL injection
6. Spyware

Question 3

Worms:

Answer 3

Programs that copy themselves from one computer to another over networks

Question 4

Trojan horse:

Answer 4

A software program that appears to be
benign, but then does something
unexpected

Often “transports” a virus into a computer
system

Question 5

SQL injection:

Answer 5

Hackers submit data to Web forms that sends rogue SQL query to database to perform malicious acts (e.g. delete
segments of the database)

Question 6

Spyware:

Answer 6

• Key loggers
• Reset browser home page
• Redirect search requests
• Slow computer performance by taking up memory

Question 7

Spoofing:

Answer 7

Masquerading as someone else, or redirecting a Web link to an unintended address

Question 8

Sniffing:

Answer 8

An eavesdropping program that monitors information travelling over a network