This is the name for a group of programmers who are hired to expose errors or security holes in new software or to find out why a computer network's security is being broken.

Related MCQs

• This is a series of messages sent by someone attempting to break into a computer to learn which computer network services the computer provides.
• This is an assault on the integrity of a security system in which the attacker substitutes a section of cipher text (encrypted text) with a different section that looks like (but is not the same as) the one removed.
• This type of intrusion relies on the intruder's ability to trick people into breaking normal security procedures.
• This is a type of network security attack in which the intruder takes control of a communication between two entities and masquerades as one of them.
• What "layer" of an e-mail message should you consider when evaluating e-mail security?
• This is a compromised Web site that is being used as an attack launch point in a denialof-service attack.
• This is a mechanism for ensuring that only authorized users can copy or use specific software applications.
• This is the encryption algorithm that will begin to supplant the Data Encryption Standard (DES) - and later Triple DES - over the next few years as the new standard encryption algorithm.
• __________ is an electronic or paper log used to track computer activity.
• An intruder might install this on a networked computer to collect user ids and passwords from other machines on the network.