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What are cookies?
sweets that we eat
small amount of data generated by a website
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Secure Coding Concepts are?
Trojans set off of a certain date
Codes that are in need of securing
Applications behaving improperly without consequnce
Practices used to upgrade security of software
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What are time bombs?
A platonic extra added to an OS as some sort of joke
A timer that tells when a session ends
Trojans set off on a certain date
Codes inserted into a software
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What is a User Account Control?
small amount of data generated by a website
pieces of data that websites store on a user's computer
Feature that was designed to prevent changes to a computer
made to address a specific customer situation.
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What is application blacklisting?
To delete applications off your computer system.
When you patch an application.
The act of configuring an OS securely.
When individual applications are disallowed.
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What is active interception?
Computer placed in effort to capture and modify information
Appears to perform desired functions but are malicious
Code inserted into a software
Used in computer programs to bypass normal authentication
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What is Trusted Operating Systems?
Operating systems that have multiple levels of security
The process of measuring changes in networking
A Microsoft-centric group of updates
When individual applications are disallowed
8
What is adware?
Applications behaving improperly without consequence
Pops up ads off what it learned spying on the user
Malware that demands a ransom be paid
Malicious software downloaded from a site or gets installed
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Easter Eggs are.......
Trojans set off on a certain date
Things you find on Easter in an Easter egg hunt
Platonic extras that are added to an OS as some sort of joke
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What is System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)?
utilizing people who don't know the system
Prioritizing threats to an application
In-depth code inspection procedure
Process of planning, developing,and testing of systems
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What is Typosquatting?
A method that a threat uses to access a target
A type of attack on your router
When a user is directed to an unwanted site
A type of malware distributed on the internet
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What are open-mail relays?
Trojans set off on a certain date
E-mails that race through cyberspace
Enables anyone on the Web to send e-mail through SMTP server
E-mails that disrupt the server
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What is Ransomware?
Malware that restricts access and demands a ransom be paid
Describes applications behaving improperly
Individual compromised computers in the botnet
A platonic extra that was added to an OS as a joke
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What is Group Policy?
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An operating system within an operating system
A way to govern multiple computer systems
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What is Storage Segmentation
Clear separation of organizational and personal information
Software solutions that control remote devices
The usage of certain files and folders
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What is Rootkit?
Software designed to gain administrative level control
Code that runs on a users computer without their knowledge
A group of compromised computers
Abuse of electronic messaging systems
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What are Locally Shared Objects?
pieces of data that websites which are put on a computer
Applications that behave improperly without consequence
Applications that are stored on a computer
Trojans set off on a certain date
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What is Virtualization
Trojans set off on a certain date
applications behaving improperly
The creation of a virtual entity
Groups of policies
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What is White-Box testing?
A way of testing the internal workings of an application
A way of testing the internal workings of a computer system
A way of testing the external workings of an application
A way of testing the external workings of a computer file
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What is Patch Management?
Policies that help govern multiple computer systems
When individual applications are disallowed
The creation of a virtual entity
The planning.testing,implementing and auditing of patches
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What is Malware?
The individual compromised computer in the botnet
Software designed to gain administrator level control
Code that runs on a computer without the users knowledge
Software designed to infiltrate a computer system
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What are backdoors?
Helps bypass normal authentication and security mechanisms
Trojans set off on a certain date
Codes to back up your computer
The act of exploiting a bug or design flaw in a software
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What is a botnet?
A group of compromised computers
a helpful type of software
Similar to a virus but it self replicates
Malware that restricts access to computer files
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What is privilege escalation?
The act of exploiting a bug or design flaw in a software
The act of capturing and modifying information
Code inserted into a software
The permission a user has to access files
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What is Hardening?
The act of securing an OS.
A Microsoft-centric group of updates.
When individual applications are disallowed.
A way to install updates.
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What is a Sandbox?
Code inserted into a system
viruses inserted into a application
A web script runs in its own environment
multiple threats inserted in a computer system
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What is a service pack?
The act of securing an OS securely.
The manual your internet provider sends you.
A way to shutdown your computer from the command prompt.
A Microsoft-centric group of updates.
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What is Mobile Device Management?
Controlling the amount of storage on your mobile device
A type of application that informs you of your phone data
Software solutions that can control remote mobile devices
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What is a Virus?
Infects executable files
A group of compromised computers
A code that runs on a computer without the users knowledge
Trojans set off on a certain date
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What is an attack vector?
Trojans set off on a certain date
A code inserted into a software
The means by which an attacker gains access to a computer
The method that a threat uses to access a target
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What is A Spyware?
Pops up ads. based off what it learned spying on the user
Applications behaving improperly without serious consequence
A type of malicious software downloaded from a website
The abuse of electronic messaging systems such as e-mail
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What is Hot-fix?
A way to govern user computer accounts through sets of rules
A operating system that has multi-level security
A single problem-fixing patch into a individual OS
Groups of policies that can be loaded with one procedure
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What is Spam?
Malware that restricts access to computer files
Similar to a virus, but it self-replicates
A code inserted in software to initiate malicious functions
The abuse of electronic messaging systems such as e-mail
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What is blue-snarfing?
Unauthorized access of information from a wireless device
A type of malware
The sending of unsolicited messages to Bluetooth devices
A type of SIM cloning
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Baselining is......
The measuring of changes in network, hardware, software etc.
Operating system within an operating system
The planing, testing, implementing and auditing of patches
lining up bases in baseball
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What is grayware?
Spyware that changes computer configuration
Software that can lock and unlock a computer
Software that saves a computer from an attack
Applications that behave improperly without consequence
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What is a Worm?
Software designed to infiltrate a computer system.
Similar to a virus but it self-replicates.
Code that runs on a computer without users knowledge.
The abuse of electronic messaging systems such as e-mail.
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What are zombies?
Man eating dead people
A computer placed between a sender and receiver
A group of compromised computers
Individual compromised computers in the botnet
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What is bluejacking?
The sending of unsolicited messages to Bluetooth devices
Unauthorized access of info from a wireless device
A method of locating files in command prompt
A method of bypassing security networks
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What is a Trojan Horse?
Abuse of instant messaging systems
A type of malicious software downloaded from a website
A method that a threat uses to access a target
Appear to perform wanted functions but are malicious
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What is a Logic Bomb?
Similar to a virus, but it self replicates
Code designed to secure important files
Code that interrupts a system
Code that starts a malicious function
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What is application white listing?
A form of geotagging
A list of approved applications created by the administrator
A clear separation of organizational and personal info
Software solutions that can control remote mobile devices
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What is a threat vector?
The means by which an attacker gains access to a computer
Spyware that pops up advertisements
The method that a threat uses to access a target
Software designed to infiltrate a computer system
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What is hypervisor?
Allows one virtual OS to run at different times
Allows two virtual OS to run at a certain time
Allows multiple virtual OS to run at the same time
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What is Black-Box testing?
similar to a virus, but self-replicates
Inserted in a system to crash it
Utilizes people who don't know the system
Trojans set off on a certain date
