Security Awareness Quiz

What does a lock icon symbolize besides a website name?

• The website needs a password to be accessed
• The website cannot be accessed without the site admin’s permission
• The website is a secure website
• The website is not accessible at the moment

Horace is a 64 year-old man who worked as an accountant for SN Associates before his retirement. The company gifted him a laptop at the time of his retirement. Since Horace was not a technically savvy person, he did not install any applications on his laptop, and only used it for checking his email and playing poker online. After some time, Horace’s laptop started giving him problems. It crashed frequently, often displayed the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), and unwanted windows kept popping up whenever he went online. When Horace took his laptop to the service center, he was told that his laptop was infected with malware. Which software should Horace have installed to prevent malware infection in his laptop?

• Adobe Reader
• Antivirus software
• Skype
• One Drive

Harold, an associate at AQ Corporation, received a phone call from a person claiming to be Bob from the IT department. Bob told Harold that he had noticed that Harold’s computer was running slow, and could help him fix it. Harold, not having much knowledge regarding computers, readily agreed. Following Bob’s instructions, Harold typed in some commands on his computer, and gave remote access to Bob to have his computer fixed. Later on, Harold noticed that confidential information concerning his clients was missing from his computer. Which attack was Harold a victim of?

• War driver
• Evil twin
• Social engineering
• Bluesnarfing

Which of the following is the strongest password?

• Domike*
• Donna1992
• donnamike92
• Pa#72tLe

Which of the following terms refers to the process of protecting information, and the infrastructure that stores it?

• Keystroke logging
• Data security
• Maintenance
• Availability

Duke is taking some of the best pictures he has yet as an amateur photographer in a pen drive to get his work assessed by an expert. On the subway an unknown person picks his pocket Along with his wallet Duke also lost the pen drive with his pictures. Since he had not made any more copies of those pictures, he lost them forever. What type of data loss is this?

• Hardware theft
• Malware attack
• Natural disaster
• Software theft

Which of the following software programs runs on the internet and allows users to find, access, and display web pages?

• Email
• Web browsers
• Extensions
• Search engine

Which of the following terms refers to a collection of information that defines or describes the user and his or her interests?

• Facebook group
• Profile
• Account settings
• Timeline

Sam uses his work laptop to watch pirated movies at home sometimes. When he tried to watch the latest movie he downloaded, the movie file did not play even after trying on several different players. Within a day of this, Sam noticed that many of his files were vanishing one after the other from his laptop even though neither he nor anyone else deleted them. The network administrator of his company, after taking a look at his computer told him that the movie files, which did not play, definitely had something to do with this peculiar behavior. What type of data loss could this be?

• Software failure
• Computer virus
• Human error
• Natural disaster

Raymond received an email from an official claiming to be from his bank. The email requested Raymond to send his personal details since the customer database of the bank was being updated. Upon confirmation from the bank, Raymond was told that the bank had not sent any emails asking for the personal details of their customers. Which cyber-attack would Raymond have been a victim of if he had replied to the email?

• Man in the middle attack
• War driver
• Eavesdropping
• Phishing