LU CSCI340 Jakobsson text Ch 1
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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crimeware | software that performs illegal actions unanticipated by a user running the software; these actions are intended to yield financial benefits to the distributor of the software
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phishing | Online identity theft, in which confidential information is illicitly obtained through a computer network and used for profit
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click fraud | online advertisers are cheated into paying criminals who simulate clicks on advertisements they host themselves
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ransomware | data on a compromised machine is encrypted, and the criminal then offers to decrypt the data for a fee
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browser helper object | can detect changes to the URL and log information when a URL is affiliated with a designated credential collection site
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hooking | An application-level software package used to intercept keystroke data
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device driver | A kernel-level form of software that can store keyboard and mouse inputs in conjunction with monitoring the user’s activities.
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screenscraper | monitors both the user’s inputs and portions of the display. can thwart alternate on-screen input security measures.
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scancode | a numeric representation of the key that the user pressed
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DNS cache | stored on the user’s local machine and keeps track of responses provided by DNS servers
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trawler phishing | A web proxy attack, in which a malicious web proxy receives all web traffic from a compromised computer and relays it to a legitimate site, collecting credentials and other confidential information in the process.
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session hijacking attack | information is received from a user and passed through to the legitimate site until the desired authentication and/
or transaction initiation has been performed, whereupon the session is hijacked.
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hostname lookup (pharming) attack | a website at the correct hostname, but incorrect IP address, relays data between the user and legitimate site, to provide verisimilitude and delay detection.
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staged downloaders/modular malicious code | Crimeware instances employing a two-stage approach
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backdoor | opens up a means for remote control of the victim’s computer, usually
via a TCP/IP port on which it listens for commands, either manually sent or sent en masse to a botnet
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