Answered: 1. Aditya is a digital forensics…

Database System Concepts

7th Edition

ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

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1. Aditya is a digital forensics specialist. He is investigating the computer of an identity theft victim. Which of the following is an attack vector that cannot be investigated on the victim's machine?

Group of answer choices

SQL injection

Phishing email

Dumpster diving

Spyware

2. The main purpose of __________ is to prevent legitimate users from being able to access a given computer resource.

Group of answer choices

a denial of service (DoS) attack

a logic bomb

identity theft

a phishing attack

3. Attackers leveraging Structured Query Language (SQL) injection can be thwarted using proper programming techniques that:

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force applications to consistently read true statements as false.

bypass validation to allow for stronger security controls.

disallow the use of additional characters to "escape" an application reading them as text and instead process them as an instruction.

force applications to return all records where the username and password are blank.

4. Bill is an accountant for a construction firm. He receives an urgent email at 5:30 p.m. on Friday that appears to be from his company's chief financial officer. The email is approving a request for funds to be moved from a corporate account to a personal account for the construction manager. The request is for the funds to be moved immediately so that the manager can purchase the equipment needed for a project to be completed over the weekend. Bill notices that the sender's actual email account is from a domain that is not affiliated with the company. What type of attack is likely underway?

Group of answer choices

Spyware

A SQL injection attack

Phishing

A denial of service (DoS) attack

5. ______ is defined as any attempt to gain financial reward through deception.

Group of answer choices

Fraud

Identity theft

Cyberterrorism

Hacking

6. How is cyberterrorism different from other cybercrimes?

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It always includes a logic bomb.

It is investigated by federal law enforcement.

Attacks are motivated purely by financial gain.

It is never leveraged by spyware programs.

7. Most often, criminals commit __________ to perpetrate some kind of financial fraud.

Group of answer choices

identity theft

denial of service attacks

harassment

cyberterrorism

8. With respect to phishing, a high-quality fictitious email that is intended to steal personal data to conduct identity theft will often leave the evidence in what IT system?

Group of answer choices

Company website server

Email server

Intrusion detection system

Workstation firewall

9.What is the name of a type of targeted phishing attack in which the criminal targets a high-value target, such as a senior company executive?

Ans: C

Group of answer choices

Spoofing

C-suite attack

Denial of service attack

Whaling

10. Windows passwords are hashed and then stored in the __________ on the local machine.

Group of answer choices

SAM file

Windows Registry

PSDW store

/domain/password file

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