We're Under Attack
This type of malware locks users out of their systems until a ransom is paid.
What is Ransomware?
It acts as a barrier to control incoming and outgoing internet traffic.
What is a Firewall?
VPN
What is Virtual Private Network?
A social engineering attack that uses mobile text messages requesting a person to take immediate action by clicking a link.
What is Smishing?
This TV series follows Elliot, a cybersecurity engineer with a troubled personal life who becomes involved with an underground hacking group aiming to dismantle major corporations.
What is Mr. Robot?
A type of attack that uses human psychology to trick individuals into providing sensitive information.
What is Social Engineering?
The process of converting plain text into an unreadable format using a mathematical algorithm and a secret key.
SSO
What is Single Sign On?
A caller pretending to be a bank official claiming fraudulent activity on your account and asking for your account details to "verify" them.
What is Vishing?
This series that ran from 2011 - 2019, explored the dark side of technology, frequently touching on privacy breaches, identity theft, and the ethical implications of new technologies.
What is Black Mirror?
This type of attack overwhelms a website, application or system with volumes of fraudulent traffic making the system unavailable.
What is DoS or DDoS?
The principle in which a user is given the minimum levels of access needed to perform their job.
What is Least Privilege?
MFA
What is Multi-Factor Authentication?
An attacker impersonating a senior leadership member asking for a money transfer or to review a document.
What is Whaling?
The actress who played Angela Bennet in the movie, The Net, released in 1995, about a computer programmer who stumbled upon government secrets.
Who is Sandra Bullock?
A malicious program disguised as a legitimate software to steal data, create a backdoor, or install other malware.
What is a Trojan/Trojan Horse?
This symbol on a website indicates an encrypted, secure connection between the user's computer and the web server.
What is a Padlock?
GDPR
What is General Data Protection Regulation?
It involves tricking individuals into scanning a Quick Response code that will direct to a malware infected website.
What is Quishing?
This 1983 film follows a high school student who inadvertently hacks into a military supercomputer, almost triggering a global catastrophe.
What is WarGames?