ISQS 2340 Final Exam
Spoofing - ✔️✔️used in phishing tactics
spoofing - ✔️✔️email address to trick users into passing along critical information like
passwords or credit card numbers
spamming - ✔️✔️indiscriminate sending of unsolicited email messages to many
internet users (junk mail)
flaming - ✔️✔️sending extremely critical, derogatory, and often vulgar email messages
or newsgroup postings to other users on the internet
Flame Mail - ✔️✔️racist or defamatory messages or sexually explicit material have led
to calls for censorship and laws for libel
keystroke logging - ✔️✔️program that gets installed in computer and someone away
from system can see what strokes you are typing in
cookie - ✔️✔️information about you can be captured legitimately and automatically
each time you visit a website. website owners may sell the information to third parties
adware - ✔️✔️software that serves as a useful purpose but also allows internet
advertisers to display advertisements (pop up and banner ads)
spyware - ✔️✔️adware that employs the user's internet connection in the background
without your permission or knowledge
sniffer - ✔️✔️programs that search packets of data as they pass through the internet
phishing - ✔️✔️attempt to trick a person into giving away their private account info by
confirming it at their website. looks just like real website. emails are sent to randomly
chosen people
opt in - ✔️✔️customer explicitly consents to allow data to be compiled about you
(europe)
opt out - ✔️✔️customer explicitly asks to be taken off (US)
denial of service (attack) - ✔️✔️hammering a website's equipment with too many
requests for information (ex twitter shutting down)
scans - ✔️✔️widespread probes of the internet to determine types of computers
Spoofing - ✔️✔️used in phishing tactics
spoofing - ✔️✔️email address to trick users into passing along critical information like
passwords or credit card numbers
spamming - ✔️✔️indiscriminate sending of unsolicited email messages to many
internet users (junk mail)
flaming - ✔️✔️sending extremely critical, derogatory, and often vulgar email messages
or newsgroup postings to other users on the internet
Flame Mail - ✔️✔️racist or defamatory messages or sexually explicit material have led
to calls for censorship and laws for libel
keystroke logging - ✔️✔️program that gets installed in computer and someone away
from system can see what strokes you are typing in
cookie - ✔️✔️information about you can be captured legitimately and automatically
each time you visit a website. website owners may sell the information to third parties
adware - ✔️✔️software that serves as a useful purpose but also allows internet
advertisers to display advertisements (pop up and banner ads)
spyware - ✔️✔️adware that employs the user's internet connection in the background
without your permission or knowledge
sniffer - ✔️✔️programs that search packets of data as they pass through the internet
phishing - ✔️✔️attempt to trick a person into giving away their private account info by
confirming it at their website. looks just like real website. emails are sent to randomly
chosen people
opt in - ✔️✔️customer explicitly consents to allow data to be compiled about you
(europe)
opt out - ✔️✔️customer explicitly asks to be taken off (US)
denial of service (attack) - ✔️✔️hammering a website's equipment with too many
requests for information (ex twitter shutting down)
scans - ✔️✔️widespread probes of the internet to determine types of computers
