WGU C840 - All Chapters with complete solution Cyberstalking - The use of electronic communications to harass or threaten another person.Denial of service (DoS) attack - An attack designed to overwhelm the target system so it can no longer reply to legitimate requests for connection.Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack - An attack in which the attacker seeks to infect several machines, and use those machines to overwhelm the target system to achieve a denial of service.Fraud - A broad category of crime that can encompass many different activities, but essentially, any attempt to gain financial reward through deception.Identity theft - Any use of another person's identity.Logic bomb - Malware that executes its damage when a specific condition is met.Rainbow table - Type of password crackers that work with precalculated hashes of all passwords available within a certain character space.Three-way handshake - The process of connecting to a server that involves three packets being exchanged.Virus - Any software that self-replicates.Anti-forensics - The actions that perpetrators take to conceal their locations, activities, or identities.Cell-phone forensics - The process of searching the contents of cell phones.Chain of Custody - The continuity of control of evidence that makes it possible to account for all that has happened to evidence between its original collection and its appearance in court, preferably unaltered. 1 / 2
computer forensics - The use of analytical and investigative techniques to identify, collect, examine and preserve computer-based material for presentation as evidence in a court of law.Curriculum vitae (CV) - An extensive document expounding one's experience and qualifications for a position, similar to a resume but with more detail. In academia and expert work, a CV is usually used rather than a resume.Daubert standard - The standard holding that only methods and tools widely accepted in the scientific community can be used in court.Demonstrative evidence - Information that helps explain other evidence. An example is a chart that explains a technical concept to the judge and jury.Digital evidence - Information that helps explain other evidence. An example is a chart that explains a technical concept to the judge and jury.Disk forensics - Information that has been processed and assembled so that it is relevant to an investigation and supports a specific finding or determination.Documentary evidence - The process of acquiring and analyzing information stored on physical storage media, such as computer hard drives or smartphones.E-mail forensics - Data stored in written form, on paper or in electronic files, such as e- mail messages, and telephone call-detail records. Investigators must authenticate documentary evidence.Expert report - The study of the source and content of e-mail as evidence, including the identification of the sender, recipient, date, time, and origination location of an e-mail message.Expert testimony - A formal document prepared by a forensics specialist to document an investigation, including a list of all tests conducted as well as the specialist's own curriculum vitae (CV). Anything the specialist plans to testify about at a trial must be included in the expert report.Internet forensics - The testimony of an expert witness, one who testifies on the basis of scientific or technical knowledge relevant to a case, rather than personal experience.Live system forensics - The process of searching memory in real time, typically for working with compromised hosts or to identify system abuse.Network forensics - The process of examining network traffic, including transaction logs and real-time monitoring.
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