What Made the University of Exeter's System Vulnerable to Attack

question 57

Multiple Choice

What made the University of Exeter's system vulnerable to attack?

• A)The appropriate patches for the security software had not been applied in a timely fashion.
• B)The students and faculty didn't log off the system, so an intruder was able to get onto the system very easily.
• C)The university did not have a good spam policy, so the intruder was able to send the virus via e-mail.
• D)The university did not run background checks on employees and hired the hacker without knowing about his past actions.

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