Cybersecurity and Global Impacts Review

____________ is a technique that attempts to trick a user into providing personal information. That personal information can then be used to access sensitive online resources, such as bank accounts and emails.

• Keylogging

• Phishing

• Malware

• Decryption

Asymmetric Key Encryption is also known as:

• Caesar Cipher

• Decryption

• Public Key Encryption

• Private Key Encryption

What is a DNS spoofing attack?

• A hacker sends a forged email asking a user to enter their password or other sensitive information for a given website, then steals the information

• A hacker overwrites the data for a given domain name in a DNS server, causing the IP for that domain to point to the hacker’s website rather than the intended website.

• A hacker takes control over hundreds or thousands of computers, and sends several requests from those computers to a particular IP address, causing the computer at that IP address to crash.

• A hacker gets a victim to install software on their computer, and that software is able to run in the background and send private information back to the hacker.

What is information about an individual that identifies, links, relates, or describes them?

• User History

• Cookies

• Cache

• Personally Identifiable Information

• A

• B

• C

• D

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• B

• C

• D

• A

• B

• C

• D

• A

• B

• C

• D

Which of the following best describes a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

• An attempt by a country to deny its citizens access to the Internet

• An attempt to deny users access to a Web site's resources by flooding the Web site with requests from multiple systems

• An attempt by one user to deny service to another user by posting material on a social network

• An attempt by a user of the Internet to get private information from a secure database

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• B

• C

• D