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WGU C840 - All Chapters 2022 (Complete Solutions)

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Cyberstalking - The use of electronic communications to harass or threaten another person. Denial of service (DoS) attack - An attack designed to overwhelm the target system so it can no longer rep... ly to legitimate requests for connection. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack - An attack in which the attacker seeks to infect several machines, and use those machines to overwhelm the target system to achieve a denial of service. Fraud - A broad category of crime that can encompass many different activities, but essentially, any attempt to gain financial reward through deception. Identity theft - Any use of another person's identity. Logic bomb - Malware that executes its damage when a specific condition is met. Rainbow table - Type of password crackers that work with precalculated hashes of all passwords available within a certain character space. Three-way handshake - The process of connecting to a server that involves three packets being exchanged. Virus - Any software that self-replicates. Anti-forensics - The actions that perpetrators take to conceal their locations, activities, or identities. Cell-phone forensics - The process of searching the contents of cell phones. Chain of Custody - The continuity of control of evidence that makes it possible to account for all that has happened to evidence between its original collection and its appearance in court, preferably unaltered. [Show More]

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