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What is Data?
To apply or maintain permissions to prevent an account from getting information they are not authorized to see while making the information available to those who are authorized.
What is Access Control?
They are people who traditionally tried to gain access to computers remotely to learn more and for intellectual curiosity. Currently, they only make up 17% of computer intrusions.
Who are hackers?
A program that is designed only to read Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) web pages downloaded from Internet websites. They can have helpers or add-on functions incorporated by using interpreters to read the additional instructions and provide different web content types. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari are examples of these.
What is a browser? (or web browser)
The list of computers, laptops, software, equipment allowed by an organization's network
What is a Whitelist?
An identifier that uniquely tracks actions to individuals.
What is an Account? (or Login ID)
A ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency in 2017
What is WannaCry?
Easily readable programs that automate or provide extra function on a computer system or in an application or browser. ActiveX and JavaScript are examples of this type of language.
What is Scripting? (or Scripting Code or Scripting Language)
Any combination of your name, your home address or phone number, credit card or account numbers or social security number.
What is PII? (or Personally Identifiable Information)
The use of personality, knowledge of human nature and social skills to steal passwords, keys tokens or other credentials to gain access to systems.
What is Social Engineering?
Functional managers classify data and grant approval to those whose jobs require access to the information.
Who are Data Managers?
Hailing from the US of A, this hacker started at the age of 14, making their mark by hacking into the NSA. From there, they worked with ShadowCrew and targeted companies like TJX, Heartland Payment Systems, and Citibank, before finally being indicted on charges in several cases. Under arrest, they now work with authorities.
Who is Albert Gonzalez?
A type of a program that takes scripting language and reads it so it can be acted on by a browser or an application. These are found in almost all operating systems, web browsers and many commercial off the shelf application programs.
What is an Interpreter?
30-50% of all data loss due to the people already within the organization.
What is Insider Threat?
As a result of the VA breach in 2006 where PII of over a million veterans was lost, it is now a requirement to delete all sensitive data extracts on individual computers after this number of days.
What is 90 days?
Wizard Spider, an eCrime group that has been operating since August 2018, targets organizations for a high value return. The method that they are most know for is specifically used to target enterprise environments that's derived from the Hermes source code is known as...
What is Ryuk Ransomware?
This filters and monitors HTTP traffic to prevent attacks like Cross-site forger, XSS, file inclusion and SQL injections. In the OSI model, it's a protocol layer 7 defense
What is Web Application Firewall (WAF)?
When a device generates an alert for that has not happened
What is a false positive/negative
A necessary process to limit the kinds of hardware and software which minimizes the number of different vulnerabilities and reduces exposure to security weaknesses.
What is Standardization?
It is a word or phrase that verifies that you and only you had access to the account.
What is a Password?
In 2009, hacker's gained access to several corporate servers and intellectual properties. The company breached said that they believed the goal of this attack was to access the accounts of human rights activist by their government. This attack caused the company to move their servers to Hong-Kong to escape the Government's internet filtering policy, what attack was this?
What is the Google China cyber attack (2009)?
A set of rules or a protocol, for routing and addressing packets of data so that they can travel across networks and arrive at the correct destination
What Internet Protocol (IP)