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1. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act includes provisions to protect consumers personal financial information held by financial institutions

2. Ensures that the information is correct and no unauthorized person or malicious software has altered that data

3. Premeditated - politically motivated attacks against computers and networks - affecting non-combatant targets - by sub-national groups or clandestine agents

4. Planning - recording - and analyzing and interpreting financial information.

5. Ensures that data is available to authorized users

6. A computer system (or an application program) that intercepts internal user requests and then processes that request on behalf of the user.

7. A loose-knit network of attackers - identity thieves - and financial fraudsters that are highly motivated - less risk-adverse - better funded - and more tenacious than hackers

8. Hardware - software - or both designed to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing electronic information

9. (n.) something of value; a resource; an advantage

10. A process used by hackers to steal usernames and passwords online.

11. The statistical analysis of biological data; the measurement and analysis of unique physical or behavioral characteristics to verify the identity of a person

12. The activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text

13. Gathers information and communicates this information to an outsider via the Internet; can monitor your activity online

14. Unskilled users who want to break into computers to create damage. Download automated hacking software (scripts) from Web sites and use it to break into computers. They are sometimes considered more dangerous than hackers due to unlimited amounts of

15. Taking advantage of

16. A technology that uses multiple hard disk drives for increased reliability and performance

17. A plastic card containing a microprocessor that enables the holder to perform operations requiring data that is stored in the microprocessor

18. A program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful

19. A weakness that allows a threat agent to btpass security

20. A person or thing that has the power to carry a threat

21. A technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft - usually by means of fraudulent e-mail

22. A warning that one may do harm

23. Is a branch of digital forensic science pertaining to legal evidence found in computers and digital storage media. The goal of computer forensics is to examine digital media in a forensically sound manner with the aim of identifying - preserving - re

24. Ensures that only authorized parties can view the information

25. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

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