Car Accidents and Coordinates
Computer Technologies
Computer Technologies Pt2
100

What technique do investigators use, which utilizes cell phone tower position      to locate where someone used a cellphone during the commission of a crime?

Triangulation 

100

Extortion via the encrypting of a hard drive or computer storage network until a fee is paid to unlock it is called:  

Ransomware attack

100

The internet of things (IoT) consists of which of the following:

a. your automobile

b. your computer

c. your personal electronic assistant (Seri, Alexa)

d. all of the above

200

You cannot determine the speed a car was moving by measuring the skid marks it produced

False 

200

An encrypted password

scrambles your password so it's unreadable and/or unusable by hackers

200

Phishing attack

The practice of sending fraudulent communications that appear to come from a reputable source.

300

Polar coordinates  

When only 1 fixed point is available- Establish North on the diagram.

300

Photography of the drive

The process of creating an exact duplicate (or “image”) of a digital storage device, such as a hard drive or memory card

300

Denial of service attack

DDos – Denial of service disrupting networks by overloading servers

400

Compass tracking

Determining the direction or orientation of an object or location relative to the Earth's magnetic north.

400

When demonstrating that a copy of a hard drive is an exact, unadulterated copy investigators apply this technique to the drive

A hashing algorithm

400

Man in the middle hacking attack

Identity theft -impersonating a bank employee to obtain financial information of an individual

500

Baseline

Rectangular coordinates

500

A hashing algorithm

 A verification process to ensure the copy is identical to the original

500

Drive by download

open a malicious web page and installing malware