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A(n) ____________________ hacks the public telephone network to make free calls or disrupt services.

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​A short-term decrease in electrical power availability is known as a(n) ___________.

A) ​blackout
B) ​sag
C) ​brownout
D) ​fault

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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The average amount of time between hardware failures, calculated as the total amount of operation time for a specified number of units divided by the total number of failures, is known as __________.

A(n) ____________________ is an act against an asset that could result in a loss.

A virus or worm can have a payload that installs a(n) ____________________ door or trap door component in a system, which allows the attacker to access the system at will with special privileges.

When information gatherers employ techniques in a commercial setting that cross the threshold of what is legal or ethical, they are conducting industrial ____________________.

Describe viruses and worms.

_________ is the percentage of time a particular service is available.

In the context of information security, ____________________ is the process of using social skills to convince people to reveal access credentials or other valuable information to the attacker.

The redirection of legitimate user Web traffic to illegitimate Web sites with the intent to collect personal information is known as __________.

ESD is the acronym for ____________________ discharge.

In a ____________________ attack, the attacker sends a large number of connection or information requests to disrupt a target from a small number of sources.

The expert hacker sometimes is called a(n) ____________________ hacker.

When electronic information is stolen, the crime is readily apparent.

Web hosting services are usually arranged with an agreement defining minimum service levels known as a(n) ____.

As an organization grows, it must often use more robust technology to replace the security technologies it may have outgrown.

Compared to Web site defacement, vandalism within a network is less malicious in intent and more public.

Software code known as a(n) cookie can allow an attacker to track a victim's activity on Web sites. _________________________

Which of the following is an example of a Trojan horse program?

The ____________________ data file contains the hashed representation of the user's password.