In the Extortion Economy podcast series, Episode Four – The Extortion Economy, you learned about ransomware attackers are finding creative ways to launder Bitcoin currency.  What is one of the unusual ways Bitcoin currency is cleaned?  

__________ put(s) users in control so that they can create custom reports on an as-needed basis by selecting fields, ranges, summary conditions, and other parameters.

Generative AI models, can sometimes produce unintended and unrealistic outputs, often referred to as “hallucinations.” What is a primary challenge associated with addressing these Generative AI model hallucinations?

An attack on the US power grid by terrorists or a foreign power is indicative of:

A bank customer receives a message, ostensibly from the bank’s website, asking them to provide their login information. Assuming the message is intended to defraud the customer, what type of infiltration technique is being used here?

In the Extortion Economy podcast series, Episode One – The Problem, you learned about the father of ransomware.  In 1989 the father of ransomware mailed 7,000 computer floppy discs to corporate and individual citizens worldwide.   When people ran this disc their computer froze and required victims to print an invoice and send funds to an account in Panama.    Who was the father of ransomware?

Allowing users to see who made what edits, the version history and roll back features of wikis are considered to be clearer than collaborating simultaneously in a tool such as Google Docs or Office365.

The larger and more active a wiki community, the more likely it is that information will be distorted and that errors will creep in.

Scammer sends an innocent sounding text message to a random phone number where a relationship is built overtime.  The relationship then transitions into seemingly sound crypto investments until the scammer disappears with all the victims investments.  What kind of cybersecurity scam is this?   

URL-shortening services such as bit.ly limit the impact of phishing posts since the shortened URL will clearly reveal the destination arrived at when clicked on.