A hijacked browser; a browser that takes you to sites other than those you type in the address box.
What is a way to know you have spyware?
100
A gateway that restricts and controls the flow of traffic between 2 networks.
What is a firewall?
100
A system that could be switched off at a nuclear power plant in worst case scenarios.
What is a safety system?
100
A program designed to trick users into downloading it via various phishing scams.
What is the Zeus Trojan?
100
When available, it will provide immediate updates on its Download Center for the most popular languages and operating systems starting July 13.
What is patches?
200
A spyware that transmitts detailed information to advertisers about the websites which users visit.
What is zango?
200
Generally offers good protection and is built into a router.
What is a hardware firewall?
200
At least one expert who has extensively studied the malicious software, or malware, suggests Stuxnet may have already attacked its target.
What is Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant?
200
It goes into keystroke logging mode tracking your bank and account data as you type.
What is the method in which the Zeus works?
200
According to this, updates are for Adobe Reader 9.3.2 for Windows, Mac, and Unix, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 for Windows and Macintosh, and Adobe Reader 8.2.2 and Acrobat 8.2.2 for Windows and Mac.
What is the security bulletin?
300
Automatic operating system updates (security patches).
What is a method of protection from spyware?
300
Protects against adware/spyware.
What is not a function of a firewall?
300
It then spreads from machine to machine on the network, exploiting a second vulnerability to do so, and reports back to the attacker on the internet when it finds a PC that's running the software.
What is Siemens SCADA software?
300
It makes it harder for antivirus software to track down.
What is the reason that Zeus is designed to make individual installations vary?
300
It was made public in late March by security researcher Didier Stevens, who fashioned a proof-of-concept attack that relied on the "/launch" functionality.
What is PDF vulnerability?
400
Allowing a company to track your online activities to determine which ads to show you.
What is a legitimate use of spyware?
400
Filtering; when a firewall examines information leaving your computer.
What is outbound filtering?
400
Two internet domains that the worm swaps data with.
What is Symantec monitored communications
400
This extra feature of Zeus doesn't wipe out user data, but make it more difficult to reboot the system.
What is the Kill Operating System (KOS) code?
400
It seems to be helping customers keep their software up to date better than the old system.
What is the new Updater system?
500
A small hardware device which plugs into the port used by a computer's keyboard.
What is a Keycatcher?
500
Firewalls can scan incoming data for signatures of known methods of intruders.
What is intrusion detection?
500
By geotagging the IP addresses of Stuxnet-infected computers in communication with the attacker, Fitzgerald's team found that 58.8 per cent of infections were in Iran, 18.2 per cent in Indonesia, 8.3 per cent in India, 2.6 per cent in Azerbaijan and 1.6 per cent in the US.
What is the knowing Stutnext is active?
500
Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC
What is UK banks involved in the Zeus "epidemic"?
500
Quote: "Our data showed that the user population adopted the last update roughly three times faster than previous updates."