62.
Computers are involved in two ways in the commission of crime, i.e., as
targets and as weapons or tools.
63.
Loan sharking, child pornography, and electronic stalking are crimes in
which computers play a part.
64.
The early computer viruses depended on people exchanging infected
storage media like disks.
65.
A worm is a bot-infected computer.
66.
A Storm botnet is a virus detection program.
67.
Stuxnet was the first worm to attack a nuclear plant.
68.
The latest worms are Visual Basic script viruses which cannot run on
computers that run Win32 programs.
69.
The Trojan-horse virus is designed to quickly replicate itself.
70.
A virus hoax is a virus that is nonexistent.
71.
A ping is a standard operation that networks use to check that all
computers are functioning properly.
72.
Malware bots are programs that can detect virus attacks and launch a
counterattack.
73.
The term “bot” is sometimes used to mean a compromised machine.
74.
A rootkit is easy to detect because it runs while the operating system is
starting up.
75.
The difference between cyber war and hacktivism is that hacktivism is
better-funded.
76.
Thrill-seeker hackers break into computer systems for entertainment.
77.
Script bunnies are hackers who have a lot of technical expertise.
78.
Digital forensics experts are called in to help solve crimes such as terrorist
activities and political scandals.
79.
A basic motivation for engaging in digital forensics is to gather and preserve
evidence to present in court.
80.
If a user’s phone has GPS capabilities, one’s exact location can be
pinpointed in real time.
81.
To get a forensic image copy of a hard disk, investigators first turn on the
suspected computer before copying every fragment of information in the
files.
82.
MD5 hash values are stronger than SHA hash values because their
character string is longer.
83.
The EnCase program helps investigators find a wealth of information on
storage media.
84.
In a live analysis, the examiner makes a forensic image of the disk.
85.
One of the new problems facing digital forensics experts is the problem of
access to cloud computing data.
86.
The advantage of undertaking forensic investigations on smartphones is
that they run on a range of software that varies from company to company.
87.
Deleting a message from the SIM card deletes it permanently.
88.
Flash memory is divided into the traditional blocks of bytes instead of in
pages of 2 KB or 4 KB.
89.
Registry files contain a wealth of information including preferences for
users of the system, settings for the hardware, and installed programs.
90.
Unused space results from rearranging disk space.
91.
Erasing information by wiping a disk can be done in less than 30 seconds.
92.
Anti-forensic tools fall into three categories, i.e., configuration settings,
third-party tools, and forensic defeating software.
93.
Forensic software can sometimes view the contents of a file without
opening the file.
94.
It takes a long time for password cracking programs to find passwords.
95.
Companies provide education in computer forensics to employees in order
to conduct internal investigations properly.