Question 1

Explain at length what a Caesar cipher does.

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Question 2

Provide at least five examples of ways in which you can protect yourself from online threats.

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Question 3

Depending on who a given user is, he or she can have various access privileges.What are four examples?

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Question 4

How do operating systems solve the problem of a thief stealing a password file and seeing that his password and another password hash to the same value?

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Question 5

What is the major difference between TSL and SSL?

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Question 6

What is the definition of phishing?

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Question 7

How does Triple DES improve the security of DES?

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Question 8

Explain what a denial-of-service attack is, including the terms DDOS and zombie army in your response.

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Question 9

Explain what an embedded computer is and provide examples.

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Question 10

Provide at least four suggestions for choosing passwords, and three suggestions for using passwords.

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Quiz 8: Information Security