KMA ESP: Unit 2

Why don’t any individuals and organizations purchase software as mandated by the owner’s license agreements?

• Because organizations prefer to develop their own software instead of buying.

• Because software license agreements do not have any legal restrictions.

• Because most software is licensed to a particular purchaser, its use is restricted to a single user or to a designated user in an organization .

• Because software licenses do not typically restrict usage to a specific purchaser or designated user.

______ hide their true nature and reveal their designed behavior only when activated?

Choose the statements that are TRUE

• There are only 2 existing software attacks: virus and backdoor

• Software components or programs of malicious code are designed to damage, destroy, or deny service to the target systems.

• An expert hacker is usually a master of several programming languages, networking protocols, and operating systems and also exhibits a mastery of the technical environment of the chosen targeted system.

Answer explanation

There are many software attacks: Virus, worm, trojan horses, back door or trap door,…

What is IP (Intellectual Property)?

• IP is defined as “the unrestricted right to use and share ideas without any ownership or control over their tangible or virtual representation. Anyone can freely use another person’s intellectual property without permission, payment, or credit to the source.”

• IP is defined as “the ownership of ideas and control over the tangible or virtual representation of those ideas. Use of another person’s intellectual property may or may not involve royalty payments or permission, but should always include proper credit to the source.”

• IP is an abbreviated way of "Internet Protocol"

• IP is defined as “the lawful right to use and share ideas without any ownership or control over their tangible or virtual representation. Anyone can freely use another person’s intellectual property without permission, payment, or credit to the source.”

Who are hackers?

• people who use and create mobile software to gain access to information lawfully

• people who use and create computer software to gain access to information legally

• people who use and create mobile software to gain access to information illegally

• people who use and create computer software to gain access to information illegally

One of the most common method of virus transmission is via ______

Choose the statements that are TRUE

• Before a Trojan horse can infect a machine, the user must download the server side of the malicious application.

• Trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, and patents are often considered Intellectual property.

• When an organization places its Web servers in the care of a Web hosting provider, that provider assumes responsibility for all Internet services and for the hardware and operating system software used to operate the Web site.

• There are two skill levels among hackers. The first is the expert hacker, or elite hacker and the novice or unskilled hacker.

What is the most common IP breach?

• the unlawful use or duplication of software-based intellectual property

• the legally use of software-based intellectual property

• the illegally use of software-based intellectual property

• the illicit use of software-based intellectual property

____ is a well-known and broad category of electronic and human activities that can breach the confidentiality of information.

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