Types of attacks
A scammer creates a fake email and sends it to thousands of people, hoping some of them will click on a link and give up their personal information.
What is Phishing?
(Source: https://www.mycfcu.com/content/docs/ncsam-2019-cybersecurity-awareness-trivia_final_508.pdf)
This service allows users to remain anonymous, masking their identity/location and encrypts traffic.
What is a VPN?
This ex-government employee is famous for leaking classified cybersecurity information from the National Security Agency in 2013.
Who is Edward Snowden?
Cybercrime went up 600% due to this ongoing event
What is the Pandemic / COVID-19 / Coronavirus?
An independent malware program that self-replicates in order to spread from machine to machine to cause damage.
What is a (computer) worm?
This is a method of access control by which users must present multiple, separate pieces of identification, such as a password and keycard, in order to access a system.
What is multi-factor authentication?
(Source: https://www.mycfcu.com/content/docs/ncsam-2019-cybersecurity-awareness-trivia_final_508.pdf)
This framework for providing data protection and privacy for those residing within the EU and European Economic Area was put fully in effect in mid-2018.
What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
This generation is currently the most impacted by cybercrime.
(Gen Z, Millennials, Boomers, etc)
What are Millennials?
(Source: https://www.websitehostingrating.com/cybersecurity-statistics-facts/)
This attack uses social engineering techniques to urge a specific target to click on a malicious link or attachment.
What is Spear phishing?
Spear phishers carefully research their targets, so the attack appears to be from trusted senders in the targets’ life. A spear phishing email Once the victim completes the intended action, the attacker can steal the credentials of a targeted legitimate user and enter a network undetected.
Companies consider cybersecurity when instructing employees with a policy on BYOD, which is short for this.
What is Bring Your Own Device?
This English cryptanalyst is famous for deciphering encoded messages during World War II and creating standards for artificial intelligence. He is considered by many to be the father of theoretical computing. (Hint: There was a 2014 movie based on his biography.)
Who is Alan Turing?
He helped in World War II by cracking intercepted messages from the German forces. He also created the "Turing test," which examines a machine's ability to display human behavior via artificial intelligence.
(Source: https://www.mycfcu.com/content/docs/ncsam-2019-cybersecurity-awareness-trivia_final_508.pdf)
Over the last year, malware on this operating system has gone up by 165%
What is MacOS?
(Source: https://purplesec.us/resources/cyber-security-statistics/)
This type of attack targets an organization's top officials or highly-salaried employees (C-level) to reveal sensitive information.
What is Whaling?
A group of highly trained individuals that monitor, prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats around the clock.
What is a SOC (security operations center)?
In 2005, this user-inserted cross-site scripting worm impacted over one million MySpace users within just 20 hours, making it the fastest-spreading virus of all time.
What is Samy (JS.Spacehero)?
In this country, over 130 large-scale cyber attacks occur each year.
What is the United States?
(Source: https://www.websitehostingrating.com/cybersecurity-statistics-facts/)
Criminals access someone's computer and encrypt the user's personal files and data. The user is unable to access this data unless they pay the criminals to decrypt the files.
What is Ransomware?
(Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/quiz/cybersecurity-knowledge/)
This Security as a Service application is rapidly replacing traditional anti-virus offerings and is where an organization outsources some of its security operations to a third-party provider to not only detect threats, but also remediate them within an organizations network.
What is managed detection and response?
(Also known as MDR)
This English writer and mathematician is known for her work on the Analytical Engine and is considered to be one of the first computer programmers.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
(Source: https://www.mycfcu.com/content/docs/ncsam-2019-cybersecurity-awareness-trivia_final_508.pdf)
(Hint: guess # in millions)
What is 10 million?
(Source: https://www.inap.com/blog/19-cybersecurity-national-cybersecurity-awareness-month-2019/)