Protecting Your Computer
Which term means using psychological tactics to make someone reveal information or act unsafely (impersonation, social engineering, intimidation, or psychological tactic)?
What is social engineering?
Which term means a device that the account owner does not recognize as authorized or expected (unknown device, unusual login time, online password attack, or failed login attack)?
What is unknown device?
Which term means an adversary who mainly uses tools created by others to exploit know vulnerabilities (adversary, low-skilled adversary, high-skilled adversary, or adversary motivation)?
What is low-skilled adversary?
Which term means using technology to imitate another person's voice? (shared secret, voice impersonation, voice-based authentication, or digital avatar)
What is voice impersonation?
Which term means a person or team protecting systems, networks, applications, and data from cyber threats (cyber defender, security configuration, mitigation, human review)?
What is cyber defender?
A message says act in 10 minutes or lose access. Which social engineering tactic is emphasized? (intimidation, psychological tactics, impersonation, or urgency)
What is urgency?
Which term means a list of likely passwords prepared for automated guessing? (password dictionary, password pattern, weak authentication, or automated tool)
What is password dictionary?
Which term means an attack that prevents legitimate users from accessing a system, service, or resource (jamming attack, electromagnetic signal, denial of service, or network traffic)?
What is denial of service?
Which term means AI that creates new content such as text, images, audio, video, or code (Generative AI, AI-augmented cyberattack, Large Language Model, or AI enhanced coding tool)?
What is Generative AI?
Which term means a rule that allows or blocks network traffic based on defined conditions? (detection rule, security configuration, firewall rule, or access control)
What is a firewall rule?
Which term means: a file designed to hard a device, steal information, or perform unauthorized actions (malicious link, social engineering, malicious file, or malware)
What is a Malicious file?
Which term means a password with enough characters to make guessing more difficult (random password, long password, unique password, or passphrase)?
What is long password? (remember to add the salt)
Which term means: the reason an attacker acts, such as greed, revenge, recognition, politics, or beliefs (low-skilled adversary, high-skilled adversary, adversary motivation, or adversary)?
What is adversary motivation?
Which term means an AI model trained on large amounts of text to generate and analyze language (Generative AI, AI augmented cyberattack, Large Language Model, or AI enhanced coding tool)?
What is Large Language Model or LLM?
Which term means a weakness that could be exploited by a threat (vulnerability, human review, application code, and mitigation)?
What is vulnerability?
A download program secretly records keystrokes and sends them to an attacker. What is this software? (malware, social engineering, malicious file, or malicious link)
What is malware?
A fake login page captures a user's username and password. What did the attacker steal? (One time password, sensitive information, authentication code, or login credentials)
What is login credentials?
Which term means: creating a fake Wi-Fi network with the same or a similar name as a trusted network (evil twin attack, service set identifier, wireless network beacon, or wireless access point)?
What is a Twin Attack?
Which term means gathering about a target before or during an attack? (phishing message, reconnaissance, AI augmented cyberattack, or prompt)
What is reconnaissance?
Which term means activity intended to harm, disrupt, steal, or gain unauthorized access (digital event, alert, threat detection, or malicious activity)?
What is malicious activity?
During account recovery, a site asks "What was your first pet's name?" What is this? (Login credentials, authentication code, challenge question, or sensitive information)
What is challenge question?
An account normally used in class logs in repeatedly at 3:00 am. What indicator is this?
What is unusual login time?
Which term means an encrypted protocol used to protect web traffic (encrypted protocol, DNS query, Network Traffic, or HTTPS)?
What is HTTPS?
Which term means an AI powered system that communicates with users through conversation (virtual assistant, prompt, Generative AI, or Chatbot)?
What is Chatbot?
Which term means an evaluation of an AI result by a knowledgeable person before action is taken?
What is human review?