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This uses software to try thousands of common words sequentially in an attempt to gain unauthorized access to a user's account.

A) Encryption
B) Firewall
C) Password
D) Dictionary attack

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Most browsers offer this, which ensures that your browsing activity is not recorded on your hard disk.

A) Illusion of anonymity
B) Browser cache
C) History files
D) Privacy mode

E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

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Discuss copyright issues as they relate to the Internet, including software piracy and digital rights management, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

This law gives you the right to look at your personal records held by government agencies.

A(n) _______ is someone who creates programs to gain unauthorized access to computer systems for malicious purposes.

Explain cookies and identify the difference between first-party cookies and third-party cookies.

Security is concerned with protecting information, hardware, and software from unauthorized use, as well as preventing or limiting the damage from intrusions, sabotage, and natural disasters.

_______ security is concerned with protecting software and data from unauthorized tampering or damage.

People that collect and sell personal data are called _______.

_______, a privacy issue, relates to the responsibility of controlling who is able to use data.

The most common protocol for website encryption is https (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure).

What are computer ethics?

_______ is representing some other person's work and ideas as your own without giving credit to the original source.

Computer security focuses on protecting information, hardware, and software from unauthorized use as well as preventing or limiting the damage from intrusions, sabotage, and natural disasters.

Rogue Wi-Fi hotspots imitate free hotspots and capture information, such as usernames and passwords, sent by users to legitimate sites.

Posting personal information such as your birth date, family member names, and home address, does not increase your risk of identity theft.

If copyright-protected music is uploaded to a website, it is legal to download it.

These are used by advertisers to keep track of your web activity as you move from one site to the next.

The most significant concerns for implementation of computer technology involve _______, security, and ethics.

Explain how a web bug works.