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11 - Cracking and Hacking

 1. Cracking means to gain unauthorised access to a computer in order to commit another crime such as destroying information contained in that system.
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  FALSE

  TRUE

 2. Whether the term 'hacking' had an originally positive or negative meaning is disputed.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 3. In most countries, security hacking and cracking without permission are …
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  criminal offences

   legal

  a smart way to show how clever you are

  civil matters rather than criminal officences

 4. Cracking can also mean breaking into software to disable features such as copy protection.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 5. Which of these is a way to reduce the risk of cracking?

  Opening unknown email attachments

  Avoiding common passwords

  Shortening your password

  Using an open wifi network

 6. What is DEF CON?

  A large hacker convention

  A hacker band

  A military hacker group

  A group of retired hackers

 7. An SQL injection is an example of …

  A security exploit

  A type of database error

  A hacker website

  A quicker way of writing SQL

 8. Which movie contains one of the first references to hacking in film and TV?

  Tron (1983)

  Blade Runner (1982)

  Return of the Jedi (1983)

  Back to the Future (1985)

 9. How did the 414 group of hackers gain access to computers in the early 1980s?
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  By stealing passwords

  By brute force methods

  By special algorithms

  By using common or default passwords

 10. The programmer of the Morris Worm in 1988 was the first person …

  to create malware

  to be arrested but found not guilty of a crime under the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

  to be convicted of a crime under the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

  to create a computer virus