Cyber Security: Script Kiddies

Which of the following statements is True?

Hacking is gaining unauthorised access/control to a computer unless...

• It is a friend or someone I know

• They give me permission

• They leave their computer unattended

• It is a family member

Answer explanation

Hacking in the context of cyber security is to: Gain unauthorised access and/or control of a computer system

For example: If you look over your friends shoulder for their password and break into their snapchat account without their permission, this would be considered hacking.

Why might someone want to hack?

• To steal data

• For Fun

• For Political Reasons

• All of the above

Answer explanation

People may want to hack for several reason such as:

- Financial Incentives i.e. stealing money from someone

- Data Theft i.e. stealing someone's data for a reason.

- For Fun i.e. breaking into a computer for other reason than just to have fun

- Ethical Motivation i.e. exposing someone for their wrong-doings,

What does DDoS Attack stand for...?

• Distributed Denial of Service Attack

• Dauntless Denial of Service Attack

• Debilitate Denial of Service Attack

• Defiance Denial of Service Attack

Answer explanation

A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is executed by flooding a targeted machine/ website with a lot of requests/data to overload a system

For example: crashing a website/game server by overloading it with data, to the extent that the website/server cannot cope with it, resulting in a crash.

What is Brute Force Attack?

• Harming someone physically or virtually

• Using a physical battering ram to break into a computer

• Making multiple attempts to discover something i.e. password

• None of the above

Answer explanation

A Brute Force Attack is when you try multiple different combinations in order to break into a serve/account.

For example: trying all combinations of passwords to break into your friends account.

In the context of cybersecurity, the ideal way is to code a program to try all combinations including case senstive letters (upper and lower case), numbers and symbols.

What is the difference between phishing (social engineering) and DDoS (script kiddies)?

• Phishing does not require you to code but DDoS you need to know how to code

• Phishing does not do too much harm whereas DDoS destroys the computer

• DDoS is not as damaging as Phishing

• Phishing is not real hacking whereas DDoS is considered as actual hacking

Answer explanation

Hacking is defined as gaining unauthorised access/control to a computer

Therefore techniques such as DDoS-ing and Phishing are methods to gain information to either harm or gain access/control to a computer

DDoS requires script (code) to function whereas Phishing does not require code to function but can be used

​ (a)   is when someone tries to get sensitive information​ (b)   . All they need is a device and internet connection

A distributed ​ (c)   is when someone tries to shut down to a website and/or server ​ (d)   . They can't handle the requests and ​ (e)   .

• Social Engineering
• without writing any code
• denial of service attack
• by sending too many requests
• shut down