Mark Hacks into the Database of an E-Commerce Firm and Steals

question 24

Multiple Choice

Mark hacks into the database of an e-commerce firm and steals the social security numbers of many of its customers.He then uses these numbers to take loans.This is an example of ________.

• A) phishing
• B) identity theft
• C) spamming
• D) brandjacking
• E) cybersquatting

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values defined so that there is a specified probability that the value of a parameter lies within it.

P-value

A statistic that quantifies the probability of observing the obtained results, or more extreme, if the null hypothesis is true.

Significance Level

The threshold below which a p-value indicates that the observed data is unlikely to have occurred by chance, leading to rejection of the null hypothesis.

Null Hypothesis

A statement in statistical analysis that proposes there is no significant effect or difference between certain variables or groups.