Cybersecurity 2

What is the term used for individuals who break into computer systems with their technical knowledge?

• White Hats

• Black Hats

• Cybercriminals

• Hacktivists

What is the most common type of attack used in social engineering?

• Phishing

• Pretexting

• Trojan horses

• Buffer overflow

What is the purpose of a trojan horse in a social engineering attack?

• Promote a social or political goal

• Steal data

• Encrypt files

• Force entry into a system

What is the method used to gain access to a computer system by trying every combination of password until entry is gained?

• Exploit

• Brute force

• Code injection

• Buffer overflow

What is the term used for a bug in a system that is successfully utilized to gain capabilities or access?

• Buffer overflow

• Code injection

• Exploit

• Phishing

What is the purpose of bounds checking in combating buffer overflow attacks?

• Randomize memory location of variables

• Inject purposeful new values into a program’s memory

• Test the length of input before copying it into a buffer

• Leave unused space after buffers

What is the most common type of attack used to exploit websites that use databases?

• Brute force

• Code injection

• Phishing

• Buffer overflow

What is the term used for a new exploitable bug that the software creators weren’t aware of?

• Phishing

• Exploit

• Zero day vulnerability

• Buffer overflow

What is the purpose of a botnet formed by a hacker?

• Mine bitcoins using other people's computing power

• All of the above

• Send huge volumes of spam

• Launch Distributed Denial of Service attacks

What is the potential impact of cyberattacks on the global economy?

• Three trillion dollars annually

• Two trillion dollars annually

• One trillion dollars annually

• Half a trillion dollars annually