What is software that may or may not run as root but that enables a remote party to access the device it runs on$?$

Group of answer choices

A$.$ worm

B$.$ remote access Trojan

C$.$ Trojan

D$.$ rootkit

Flag question: Question $2$

Question $21$ pts

The Cinderella attack modifies this aspect of a secure system.

Group of answer choices

A$.$ timeclock

B$.$ hard disk storage

C$.$ user credentials

D$.$ memory

Flag question: Question $3$

Question $31$ pts

If an attempt to open a file caused it to be read and its permissions checked; then if the user was authorised to access it$,$ it was read again. This would setup conditions for what type of attack?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ denial$-$of$-$service attack

B$.$ man$-$in$-$the$-$middle attack

C$.$ race condition attack

D$.$ time$-$of$-$check$-$to$-$time$-$of$-$use attack

Flag question: Question $4$

Question $41$ pts

Failure modes attributed to malicious actors are referred to as what?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ random failures

B$.$ malicious failures

C$.$ Turkish failures

D$.$ Byzantine failures

Flag question: Question $5$

Question $51$ pts

Which is not an example of redundancy?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ RAID storage

B$.$ fail$-$stop CPUs

C$.$ multi$-$threaded cores

D$.$ fault$-$tolerant multiprocessor

Flag question: Question $6$

Question $61$ pts

A network of compromised PCs is called what?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ pcnet

B$.$ botnet

C$.$ skynet

D$.$ robonet

Flag question: Question $7$

Question $71$ pts

The ACID acronym represnts which desirable features of a transaction in a distributed system?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ atomic, consistent, isolated and durable

B$.$ automatic, consistent, isolated and durable

C$.$ atomic, constrained, isolated and durable

D$.$ automatic, constrained, incorrect and durable

Flag question: Question $8$

Question $81$ pts

Identity is when two different names $($or instances of the same name$)$ correspond to the same principal.

Group of answer choices

A$.$ False

B$.$ True

Flag question: Question $9$

Question $91$ pts

The dining philosophers$$ problem is an example of which concept?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ concurrency

B$.$ race condition

C$.$ deadlock

D$.$ livelock

Flag question: Question $10$

Question $101$ pts

When IBM launched the $4753$ cryptoprocessor in $1991,$ they proposed a classification of possible attackers. Which is not one that they proposed?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ knowledgeable insiders

B$.$ script kiddies

C$.$ clever outsiders

D$.$ funded organizations

Flag question: Question $11$

Question $111$ pts

The first distributed denial$-$of$-$service $($DDoS$)$ attack may have been the Morris worm in the $1980$s$.$

Group of answer choices

A$.$ False

B$.$ True

Flag question: Question $12$

Question $121$ pts

SSH was written in $1995$ to facilitate logging on to remote computers without sending passwords in the clear. It does this using what type of encryption?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ AES

B$.$ DES

C$.$ Diffie$-$Hellman public$/$private key

D$.$ IDEA

Flag question: Question $13$

Question $131$ pts

Tamper resistant devices are ones in which key extraction would be obvious.

Group of answer choices

A$.$ False

B$.$ True

Flag question: Question $14$

Question $141$ pts

What is the general name of a self$-$contained microcontroller, with a microprocessor, memory and a serial interface integrated in a single chip and packaged in a plastic card?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ DIMM card

B$.$ smartcard

C$.$ magnetic strip card

D$.$ SIMM card

Flag question: Question $15$

Question $151$ pts

A luxury car can now contain dozens to hundreds of different processors.

Group of answer choices

A$.$ False

B$.$ True

Flag question: Question $16$

Question $161$ pts

What is a malicious program that replicates itself on other systems?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ Trojan

B$.$ rootkit

C$.$ worm

D$.$ remote access trojan

Flag question: Question $17$

Question $171$ pts

Pseudorandom number generators can generate cryptographically strong random numbers using environmental noise.

Group of answer choices

A$.$ False

B$.$ True

Flag question: Question $18$

Question $181$ pts

Processes are called concurrent if they can?

Group of answer choices

A$.$ run at the same time

B$.$ run sequentially

C$.$ mandatory access control

D$.$ run on the same core

Flag question: Question $19$

Question $191$ pts

Atomic transactions must completely succeed or not change the state of the system if they fail. They can not cause some partial state change.

Group of answer choices

A$.$ False

B$.$ True

Flag question: Question $20$

Question $201$ pts

Security$-$by$-$obscurity is the best strategy for making secure products.

Group of answer choices

A$.$ False

B$.$ True