Hacking & Phishing

An example of social engineering

• Viruses
• Worms
• Phishing
• Trojan horses

Sending requests to a system using hijacked machines is called

• Phishing
• DDOS
• Worm
• Virus

Uses a number of computers over a network of infected machines which send requests to a website which would bring it offline

• SQL
• WLAN
• DDOS
• USB

What features might give away a phishing email?

• Poor spelling
• A hyperlink to a login page
• Generic welcome message, not personalised
• All of the others

Software that performs a ‘barrier’ between a potential attacker and the computer system

• Anti-virus
• Firewall
• Windows Update
• Disk Defragmenter

A user gaining access to a system or intercepting user data without permission would be breaching which law?

• Data Protection Act
• Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)
• Investigatory Powers Act
• Computer Misuse Act

Which legislation governs the act of hacking? (1-4)

• The Freedom of Information Act

• The Data Protection Act

• Creative Commons License

• The Computer Misuse Act

Getting someone to try and break into your system in order to find the weaknesses is called...

• pen testing

• pat testing

• part testing

• hacking

Which of these would be the strongest password?

• p@ssw0rd

• 123456789

• l1@masAreCute1337

• strongpasswordsarelongpasswords

This is an example of a ________ email.