General Cyber Knowledge
World Wide Web
What does the "www" in a website address stand for?
Password
What is the most common method used to verify a user's identity online?
Ransomware
What type of malware encrypts files and demands payment?
Artificial Intelligence
What does AI stand for?
Manipulating people into revealing information or performing actions
What is social engineering?
Uniform Resource Locator
What does URL stand for?
A randomly generated 16-character password
Which is more secure: "Password123" or a randomly generated 16-character password?
WannaCry
What major ransomware attack disrupted organizations worldwide in 2017?
Software that simulates a conversation with users
What is a chatbot?
Social engineering
Someone pretending to be IT support asks for your password. What type of attack is this?
ICANN
What organization assigns domain names and IP address ranges globally?
Password Manager
What tool helps users securely store many passwords?
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
What attack floods a service with traffic to make it unavailable?
AI-generated synthetic audio, image, or video impersonating a person
What is a deepfake?
Gaining unauthorized physical access by following an authorized person
What is tailgating?
DNS
What protocol is commonly used to translate domain names into IP addresses?
Using stolen username/password combinations from one breach to access other services
What is credential stuffing?
Petya
They can be used for fraud, impersonation, misinformation, and social engineering
Why are deepfakes a cybersecurity concern?
Voice phishing over a phone call
What is vishing?
Transmission Control Protocol
What does TCP stand for?
One breached account can compromise multiple accounts
Why is password reuse dangerous?
SolarWinds
What supply-chain attack compromised many organizations through software updates in 2020?
Synthetic Media
What is the term for AI-generated content that appears realistic but is not authentic?
Creating a fabricated scenario to gain trust and obtain information.
What is pretexting?