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A phishing expedition is a masquerading attack that combines spam with spoofing. The perpetrator sends millions of spam emails that appear to be from a respectable company. The emails contain a link to a website that is designed to look exactly like the company's website. The victim is encouraged to enter his or her username, password, and sometimes credit card information.

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B) False

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What requires the user to provide two means of authentication, what the user knows (password) and what the user has (security token) ?

A) Single-factor authentication
B) Two-factor authentication
C) Multifactor authentication
D) Biometrics

E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

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Tokens are small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically.

Cryptography is the science that studies encryption, which is the hiding of messages so that only the sender and receiver can read them.

Provide an example of each of the three primary information security areas: (1) authentication and authorization, (2) prevention and resistance, and (3) detection and response.

What uses of a zombie farm, often by an organized crime association, to launch a massive phishing attack?

What are the first two lines of defense a company should take when addressing security risks?

eBay is an example of an online company that has been faced with numerous security issues. For example, imagine you purchase a digital camera on eBay. Three months later you might receive an email asking you to log in to the system to update your credit card or PayPal information. Of course, this email is not actually from eBay and as soon as you log in your information will be stolen. What type of information security breach would you consider this to be?

Which of the following protection techniques scans and searches hard drives to prevent, detect, and remove known viruses, adware, and spyware?

One of the most ineffective ways to set up authentication techniques is by setting up user IDs and passwords.

What is the science that studies encryption, which is the hiding of messages so that only the sender and receiver can read them?

What reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites?

Single-factor authentication requires the user to provide two means of authentication, what the user knows (password) and what the user has (security token).

Which of the following authentication methods is 100 percent accurate?

What reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false website?

A zombie is a program that secretly takes over another computer for the purpose of launching attacks on other computers.

Imagine you accidently mistype the URL for your bank and you are redirected to a fake website that collects your information. What type of identity theft were you just a victim of?

What is a phishing expedition?

Insiders are illegitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment to do business.

What is a technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft, usually by means of fraudulent emails that look as though they came from legitimate businesses?