COMPUTER NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK SECURITY AND CYBERSECURITY
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Question
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Criminals access someone’s computer and encrypt the user’s personal files and data. The user is unable to access this data unless they pay the criminals to decrypt the files. This practice is called ____
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Botnet
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Spam
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Ransomware
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Social Engineering
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War Driving
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) that threatens to publish or blocks access to data or a computer system, usually by encrypting it, until the victim pays a ransom fee to the attacker.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ransomware is a subset of malware in which the data on a victim’s computer is locked–typically by encryption–and payment is demanded before the ransomed data is decrypted and access is returned to the victim.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ans 3:-(a) Botnet Botnet is a group of interconnected devices containing one or more bots which are used to steal data, send spam and perform other types of attacks.
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