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The three common core goals of security are ________.

A) confidentiality, integrity, and availability
B) confidentiality, information, and availability
C) confidentiality, integrity, and authentication
D) confidentiality, information, and authorization

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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Most cookies are dangerous.

A) True
B) False

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________ attacks take advantage of flawed human judgment by convincing the victim to take actions that are counter to security policies. (Choose the best answer.)

Attackers rarely use IP address spoofing to conceal their identities.

A(n) ________ attack attempts to make a server or network unavailable to serve legitimate users by flooding it with attack packets.

Social engineering is rarely used in hacking.

The definition of hacking is "intentionally accessing a computer resource without authorization or in excess of authorization."

Confidentiality means that attackers cannot change or destroy information.

What type of employee is the most dangerous when it comes to internal IT attacks?

Watching someone type their password in order to learn the password is called ________.

Employees often have extensive knowledge of systems and can pose a greater risk than external attackers.

The terms "intellectual property" and "trade secret" are synonymous.

Compared to non-computer crime, computer crime is very small.

Which of the following can be a type of spyware?

About how long was the Sony PlayStation Network offline as a result of the cyber attacks?

The primary purpose for attackers to send port scanning probes to hosts is to identify which ports are open.

Preventative countermeasures identify when a threat is attacking and especially when it is succeeding.

In a virus, the code that does damage is called the ________.

When a threat succeeds in causing harm to a business, this is called a ________.

Money mules transfer stolen money for criminals and take a small percentage for themselves.