Threats & Threat Actors
The name for fake emails or messages designed to steal personal information.
Using an extra layer of security, like a code sent to your phone.
What is multi-factor authentication?
What does this stand for: IP address
What is Internet Protocol Address?
The type of hacker that works legally to protect systems.
What is a White-Hat Hacker?
The role of an IP address.
What is identifying devices on a network?
The type of hacker that uses pre-made tools and has minimal technical skills.
What are Script Kiddies?
Important to do regularly, to ensure you don't lose important files.
What is backing up your data?
Smallest unit of data in a computer.
What is a bit?
Is it ethical to report a security vulnerability you find in a website?
Yes!
What is Class A?
A type of cyberattack that encrypts files and demands payment to unlock them.
What is ransomware?
Dangerous to do because if one account is compromised, all accounts are compromised.
What is using all the same passwords?
Bit difference in IPv4 and IPv6.
What is 32-bit vs 128-bit?
The name for preventing someone from denying their actions in a system.
What is non-repudiation?
What is: used on the internet vs on local networks?
What APT stands for, and who typically uses it.
What is Advanced Persistent Threat, state-sponsored hackers?
Important to do as soon as it becomes available, because it patches security vulnerabilities.
What is updating software regularly?
The term for software designed to harm or exploit a computer system.
What ethical principle requires you not to access data you're not authorized to view?
What is integrity?
The process that translates private IP addresses into public IPs for internet access.
The type of malware that spreads itself across networks without needing user interaction.
What is a worm?
Best way to minimize digital footprint.
The term for dividing a network into smaller, manageable sub-networks.
The U.S. law that made unauthorized computer access illegal.
What is the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act)?
The purpose of a subnet mask in networking.
What is: to define which part of an IP address is the network and which is the host?