21.
Which of the following is a Visual Basic script virus?
22.
Which of the following is a family of worms that introduced spoofing?
23.
_____ refers to the forging of a return address on an e-mail so that the e-
mail message appears to come from someone other than the actual sender.
24.
Tracy recently received an e-mail from a friend, Alice. However, she later
got to know from Alice that she had not sent the e-mail. A couple of days
later, Tracy’s system crashed and she lost all important files from her
system. In such a situation, Tracy is MOST likely to be a victim of ____.
25.
Which of the following viruses does not replicate itself?
26.
Which of the following viruses hides inside software that one needs?
27.
_____ software is a program used to snoop on people to find out what they
are doing on a particular computer by recording every mouse click and
keystroke.
28.
Sally does most of her bank transactions online. Recently, while trying to
access her bank details online, she realized that her password was no
longer valid. On inquiring with the bank authorities, she found that
somebody had fraudulently transacted using her login details and had
transferred all her money to an unknown account. Sally was a victim of
_____ where cyber criminals were tracking her every mouse click to steal
her bank details.
29.
Which of the following refers to an e-mail sent out intending to frighten
people about a virus threat that, in fact, does not exist?
30.
Which of the following should be undertaken when one receives a viral
hoax?
31.
What is the objective of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack?
32.
Zombies which are bot-infected computers are also known as ____.
33.
Which of the following is a difference between cyber war and hacktivism?
34.
_____ refer to knowledgeable computer users who use their knowledge to
invade other people’s computers.
35.
Computer security professionals who are hired by a company to break into a
computer system to find security lapses are known as _____ hackers.
36.
White-hat hackers are known as ____.
37.
Ingrid, Inc., a software company, recently had a security lapse when a large
number of files on their systems were wiped out due to a hidden virus in the
office systems. The company has now decided to hire security professionals
whose task will be to regularly check loopholes in computer systems and
rectify them. Which of the following type of hackers would Ingrid, Inc., need
to hire?
38.
Which of the following kind of hackers exploit or destroy the information
they find, steal passwords, create viruses, and bring down computer
systems just for amusement?
39.
_____ refer to those who are hired to engage in electronic corporate
espionage and other profitable ventures.
40.
Which of the following refers to politically motivated hackers who use the
Internet to send a political message of some kind?
41.
The SMX Atomic Research Center, which works and conducts research on
nuclear reactors, recently received an anti-nuclear message on the center’s
Web site. A month later, the center’s systems crashed with a certain kind of
worm, which was planted in their systems. Which of the following kind of
hackers is MOST likely to be responsible for such an action?