COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT the Term Back Door, as It Refers to Computer

question 43

Multiple Choice

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT The term back door, as it refers to computer crime, is _____________.

• A) the area of memory where information about a virus or attempted attack is sent by the antivirus software in order to prevent similar attacks in the future
• B) a program or set of instructions that allows users to bypass security controls when accessing a program, computer, or network
• C) the vulnerabilities of a computer criminal or criminal network that enable them to be tracked and caught
• D) a weakness in a computer or network's security system that enables criminals to gain unauthorized access

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Definitions:

Probabilities

Measures of how likely it is for an event to occur, represented as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Mutually Exclusive

Refers to events that cannot occur at the same time in probability theory; the occurrence of one event means the other cannot happen.

P(A ∪ B)

The probability that at least one of two events A or B occurs.

Independent Events

Two or more events whose outcomes do not affect each other.