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 ____________ is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met and is not discoverable by antivirus software.

An electronic signature provides ________ and ________.

Establishing a connection from a remote machine in order to launch an attack can be described as a _____________________.

A hacker is able to install a keylogger on a user’s computer.  What is the hacker attempting to do in this situation?

In a stack overflow attack, to where does the return address point?

Encryption for confidentiality was the original purpose of cryptography.

The following is an example of what type of vulnerability? An application uses untrusted data in the construction of the following vulnerable SQL call: String query = “SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE custID='” + request.getParameter(“id”) + “’”;

In pretexting, an attacker calls claiming to be a certain person in order to ask for private information about that person.

Public key encryption is ________.

In a _________________  attack, the attacker disrupts services by taking down hosts.