Accounting Information Systems
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781133934400
Author: James A. Hall
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Identify the true statement 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.
Hackers can disguise their message packets to look as if they came from an authorized user and gain access to the host’s network using a technique calleda. spoofing.b. spooling.c. dual-homed.d. screening.
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