Cyber Security Threats

How many types of malware are there?

• 2

• 10

• 9

• 8

What is ransomware?

• It works in the background of a computer system and is difficult to detect.

• Encrypting it and then demands the owners to pay money for the data to be decrypted.

• It infects a computer when executed and then replicates itself to pass to another computer.

Social Engineering is like a trick to gain people’s confidence, to gather information and gain unauthorized access to the computer system.

• True

• False

What does DoS stands for?

• Denial-of-Service

• Device-of-Service

• Device-of-Science

• Denial-of-Science

Fill in the blank: DoS attacks are a type of network attack that results in some sort of __________ of _______  ________ to users, devices, or applications.

• interruption, network attacks

• interruption, network service

• fights, network service

Fill in the blank: A _________ _____ attack is similar to a DoS attack but originates from multiple , coordinated sources.

• Social Engineering

• RootKit

• Worms

• Distributed DoS

What does Brute-force attacks do?

• Is a large dictionary of passwords and their numerical values.

• Combination of letters, numbers, and symbols in the password space until they get it right.

• Intercepting  communications, other humans and machines can easily read plain text or unsecured passwords.

Dictionary attacks means  intercepting  communications, other humans and machines can easily read plain text or unsecured passwords.

• True

• False