Accounting Information Systems
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ISBN: 9781337619202
Author: Hall, James A.
Publisher: Cengage Learning,
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Identify the option which is true about the Sniffer software.
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Sniffer software isa. used by malicious Web sites to sniff data from cookies stored on the user’s hard drive. b. used by network administrators to analyze net- work traffic. c. used by bus topology intranets to sniff for carriers before transmitting a message to avoid data collisions. d. an illegal program downloaded from the Web to sniff passwords from the encrypted data of Internet customers. e. illegal software for decoding encrypted messages transmitted over a shared intranet channel.
A message that is contrived to appear to be coming from a trusted or authorized source is calleda. a denial of service attack.b. digital signature forging.c. Internet protocol spoofing.d. URL masquerading.e. a SYN-ACK packet.
Select the correct answer(s) for the following multiple-choice questions. Note that there may be more than one correct answer.
Which of the following statements is (are) true?
a. The type of computer fraud that is simplest and most common and that requires the least amount of skill is data
b. The type of computer fraud that is the most difficult because it requires the most skill is computer instructions fraud
c. The biggest cause of data breaches is organized by hacker groups.
d. Losses from the theft of physical assets are much greater than those from the electronic theft of data
e. In the absence of controls, it is not hard for a dishonest employee to steal data.
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