Question

The tools that cyber criminals often use, including computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and spyware, are called __________. question 12 options:

Answer 1

The options were: 

-malware
-spam
-Denial of Service
-Hacking 



The correct answer would be Malware. Here is why: Malware refers to a program or script that will affect a target device in a negative way, it cant be hacking because it is a topic, not a tool. Denial of Service is a type of attack that temporarily shuts down servers after a number of requests a device(s) make exceeds the number of requests it can take in a certain amount of time. Spam is either an advertising email from a third party company that bought your email from a list server from a service you gave your info to, like Facebook. Or spam could be a social engineering attack sent by someone trying to harvest your credentials from an email source your email server found untrustworthy.  

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