A number of people who call themselves hackers, though, are not as skilled as they claim to be. They have .... a few buzzwords from the Internet and may be convinced of their own digital supremacy, but they are not able to effect any real compromises to even a moderately secure system

Running an Apache web server on a simple laptop running Windows 7 Home Edition, it can take about 15 machines each running about 10 different command windows ........pinging to cause a web server to stop responding to legitimate requests.

a hacker might develop a small virus whose sole purpose is to infect as many computers as possible and then get each of the ........ computers to initiate a DoS attack on the target.

What is the primary way a virus scanner works?

What is the most common threat on the Internet?

This virus not only collected email addresses from your address book, but also from other documents on your machine (Gudmundsson, 2004). What is this?

A unique hexadecimal number that identifies your network card is called what?

The real question is this: How does spyware get onto a computer system in the first place? The most common method is a …. It is also possible that when you visit a certain website spyware may download in the background while you are simply perusing the website.