MIS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Adware, Captcha

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Management Info Systems Main
• Course: MIS 111
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

2. patent grants holder exclusive rights on an invention for specified period of time. 3. copyright provides creators of ip with ownership for a designated period. Alien software - secret software clandestine software installed on your computer through duplicitous methods (adware, spyware (key-loggers: tracks key strokes, screen scrappers, takes a movie of whats going on on your screen), spam-ware, tracking cookies) Denial of service remote software attack does not require user action. Making and distributing information goods to which you don"t have a copyright is known as piracy. Captcha used to counter hackers using key loggers. Why is it difficult to have adequate information security: numerous threats, computing resources located many places, internal networks linked to external networks, people violate security when it is inconvenient, preventive costs are often very high. Risk probability that a threat will impact a information asset. Risk management reduce risk to acceptable levels. Risk analysis ensure that security programs are cost effective.