Describe the purpose of the Secunia Personal Software Inspector described in the chapter.
What will be an ideal response?
The Personal Software Inspector searches for security vulnerabilities in popular application and system software. It verifies that patches are up-to-date in operating system, utility and application software.
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Which of the following statements about your computer's primary hard drives is FALSE?
A) Some hard drives hold up to 8 TB of information. B) Hard drives are nonvolatile storage devices. C) Internal hard drives use a laser to read and write data. D) Internal hard drives are enclosed in the system unit.
Your company has recently adopted several new account policies that will be enforced for all user accounts. One of the policies is an account lockout policy. What is the purpose of this policy?
A. It configures the number of unique new passwords that must be associated with a user account before an old password can be reused. B. It configures the maximum number of days a password can be used before the user must change it. C. It ensures that an account can no longer be used after a certain number of unsuccessful login attempts. D. It configures the fewest number of characters that can make up a password for a user account.