Exercise


1. List and describe the most common threats against contemporary information systems (Answer: see lecture 21, section 21.1)
2. Identify malware and distinguish among a virus, a worm, and a Trojan horse (Answer: see lecture 21, section 21.2)
3. Define a hacker and explain how hackers create security problems and damage systems (Answer: see lecture 21, section 21.3)
4. Define and explain computer crime (Answer: see lecture 21, section 21.3)
5. Explain how software defects affect system reliability and security (Answer: see lecture 21, section 21.5)
6. Describe the security and system reliability problems created by employees (Answer: see lecture 21, section 21.4)
7. Define computer crime and differentiate between hacker and cracker (Answer: see section 21.3)
8. What is spoofing and sniffing (Answer: see section 21.3.1)
9. How Denial-of-service attack occurred (Answer: see section 21.3.2)
10. Define Identity theft and click fraud (Answer: see section 21.3.6, 21.3.5)