WGU C840 - Digital Forensics (A+ Graded)

Malware forensics is also known as internet forensics. A True B False correct answers B The Privacy Protection Act (PPA) of 1980 protects journalists from being required to turn over to law enforcement any work product or documentary material, including sources, before it is disseminated to t...

expert report correct answers A formal document prepared by a forensics specialist to document an investigation, including a list of all tests conducted as well as the specialist's own curriculum vitae (CV). Anything the specialist plans to testify about at a trial must be included in the expert re...

The chief information officer of an accounting firm believes sensitive data is being exposed on the local network. Which tool should the IT staff use to gather digital evidence about this security vulnerability? correct answers Sniffer A police detective investigating a threat traces the sou...

Cyberstalking correct answers The use of electronic communications to harass or threaten another person. Denial of service (DoS) attack correct answers An attack designed to overwhelm the target system so it can no longer reply to legitimate requests for connection. Distributed denial of servi...

Which U.S. law criminalizes the act of knowingly using a misleading domain name with the intent to deceive a minor into viewing harmful material? A 18 U.S.C. 2252B B CAN-SPAM Act C Communications Decency Act D Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) correct answers A Which U.S. l...

Which tool should the IT staff use to gather digital evidence about this security vulnerability? correct answers Sniffer A police detective investigating a threat traces the source to a house. The couple at the house shows the detective the only computer the family owns, which is in their son's ...

The most common computer hard drives today are __________. correct answers SATA A __________ is used to send a test packet, or echo packet, to a machine to determine if the machine is reachable and how long the packet takes to reach the machine. correct answers ping Suspects often overwhelm fo...

Business Continuity Plan (BCP) correct answers A plan for maintaining minimal operations until the business can return to full normal operations. Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) correct answers A plan for returning the business to full normal operations. International Organization for Standardiza...

Forensics correct answers The process of using scientific knowledge for collecting, analyzing, and presenting evidence to the courts. Deals primarily with the recovery and analysis of latent evidence. Expert Report correct answers A formal document that lists the tests you conducted, what you fou...

Rainbow tables correct answers IEssentially, these types of password crackers work with precalculated hashes of all passwords available within a certain character space, be that a-z or a-zA-z or a-zA-Z0-9, etc. These files are called rainbow tables because they contain every letter combination "und...