MIS 3305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Verisign, National Institute Of Standards And Technology, Dumpster Diving

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 3305
• Professor: Esserman

Document Summary

Biometrics is the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting. Information security policies identify the rules required to maintain information security, such as requiring users to log off before leaving for lunch or meetings, never sharing passwords with anyone, and changing passwords every 30 days. Black-hat hackers break into other people"s computer systems and may just look around or may steal and destroy information. White-hat hackers work at the request of the system owners to find system vulnerabilities and plug the holes. Script kiddies find hacking code on the internet and click-and-point their way into systems to cause damage or spread viruses. Hactivist have philosophical and political reasons for breaking into systems and will often deface the website as a protest. Cyber terrorist seek to cause harm to people or to destroy critical systems or information and use the internet as a weapon of mass destruction.