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Computer Attacks & Abuse

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6. Using telephone lines to transmit viruses and to access, steal, and
destroy data
7. E-mailing an unsolicited message to many people at the same time
10. Inflating advertising revenue by clicking online ads numerous times
12. A link containing malicious code that takes a victim to a vulnerable
Web site where the victim’s browser executes the malicio
13. Gaining access to a computer system without permission
14. Capturing and decrypting passwords to gain access to a system
16. Inserting a malicious database query in input in a way that it can be
executed by an application program
18. Unauthorized copying or distribution of copyrighted software
19. Making an e-mail look like it came from someone else
20. Altering data before or during entry into a computer system
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1. A hacker placing himself between a client and a host to intercept
network traffic
2. Searching for modems on unprotected phone lines in order to access
the attached computer and gain access to the network(s) to
3. Copying company data, such as computer files, without permission
4. Overloading an Internet service provider’s e-mail server by sending
hundreds of e-mail messages per second from randomly gene
5. Using a wireless network without permission
8. Pretending to be a legitimate user, thereby gaining access to a
system and all the rights and privileges of the legitimate us
9. Gaining control of a computer to carry out unauthorized illicit activities
11. A demand for payment to ensure a hacker does not harm a
computer
15. Embezzling small fractions of funds over time
17. A spam blog that promotes affiliated Web sites to increase their
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Social Engineering
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4. Intercepting and/or listening in on private voice and data
transmissions
5. Diverting traffic from a legitimate Web site to a hacker’s Web site to
gain access to personal and confidential information
6. Secretly changing an already open browser tab
7. Creating Web sites with names similar to real Web sites so users
making errors while entering a Web site name are sent to a h
11. Observing or listening to users as they divulge personal information
14. E-mails that look like they came from a legitimate source but are
actually from a hacker who is trying to get the user to div
15. Verifying credit card validity
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1. Illegally obtaining confidential information, such as a Social Security
number, about another person so that it can be used f
2. Creating a seemingly legitimate business, collecting personal
information while making a sale, and never delivering the item
3. Searching through garbage for confidential data
8. A rogue wireless access point masquerading as a legitimate access
point
9. Acting under false pretenses to gain confidential information
10. Inserting a chip that captures financial data in a legitimate credit card
reader
12. Covertly swiping a credit card in a card reader that records the data
for later use
13. E-mails instructing a user to call a phone number where they are
asked to divulge personal information
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Malware
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1. Use of spyware to record a user’s keystrokes
4. Software that monitors and reports a user’s computing habits
8. Entering a system using a back door that bypasses normal system
controls
9. Malicious software that people are frightened into buying
13. Intercepting Internet and other network transmissions
16. Capturing data from devices that use Bluetooth technology
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2. Software that encrypts programs and data until a payment is made to
remove it
3. Software used to do harm
5. A segment of executable code that attaches itself to software
6. A program that can replicate itself and travel over networks
7. Unauthorized code in an authorized and properly functioning program
9. Concealing data within a large MP3 file
10. Making phone calls and sending text messages using another user’s
phone without physically holding that phone
11. Special software used to bypass system controls
12. Software that sits idle until a specified circumstance or time triggers
it
14. Software that conceals processes, files, network connections, and
system data from the operating system and other programs
15. Software that collects consumer surfing and purchasing data