BTEC DIT C3 LAB - External Threats

What does a DOS do?

• Floods a server with requests causing it to go offline

• Puts a virus file onto your computer

• Gets users to share sensitive information through a false pretext.

• It is action taken to fix something that has gone wrong.

A Man in the Middle Attack is...

• Malicious Software (Viruses, Trojans, Spyware)

• Intercepting data when it is been sent

• Taking down a website by flooding it with data and traffic

• Gaining unauthorised access to a computer

What is phishing?

• Is a type of malware disguised as legitimate programs.

• Is obtaining sensitive information from a user by looking over their shoulder while they use digital machines

• A cyber attack that sends spam messages to try and trick people to reply with the desired information.

• An attack on a remote computer by making it unable to respond to legitimate user requests.

Hacking is...

• Malicious Software (Viruses, Trojans, Spyware)

• Intercepting data when it is been sent

• Taking down a website by flooding it with data and traffic

• Gaining unauthorised access to a computer

What do we call a network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge, e.g. to send spam.

• Rootkit

• Ransomware

• Botnet

• Trojan

What do we call software that allows someone to maintain command and control over a computer without the computer user/owner knowing about it

• Bug

• Rootkit

• Worm

• Trojan Horse

What do we call programs that contain additional functionality designed to secretly monitor your activities on your computer.

• Spyware

• Adware

• Rootkit

• Botnet

What do we call a malicious software program loaded onto a user’s computer without the user’s knowledge to perform malicious actions. (It can replicate itself)

• Virus

• Rootkit

• Trojan Horse

• Adware

What Social Engineering technique involves using direct observation techniques to get information?

• Tailgating

• Shoulder Surfing

• Quid Pro Quo

• Baiting

This scam redirects you to a different but malicious website that looks just like the website you thought you were accessing.

• Pharming

• Phishing

• Trolling

• Baiting