Vocabulary
The use of the Internet to conduct violent acts that result in, or threaten, the loss of life or significant bodily harm, in order to achieve political or ideological gains through threat or intimidation
What is Cyberterrorism?
What virus sent malicious love letters via email that contained the code for a computer worm, and infected over 10 million windows personal computers?
What is ILOVEYOU?
a law enacted by the United States Congress in 2001 to combat terrorism. The law gives law enforcement agencies more tools and powers to investigate, prevent, and prosecute terrorist acts in the United States and abroad. The law also aims to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorism. The law was signed by President George W. Bush.
What is the Patriot Act?
A hacktivist group who has acted against the Church of Scientology, hacked the Pentagon, attacked Visa, PayPal and MasterCard for refusing payments to WikiLeaks, and took down some websites belonging to ISIS. Their most recognizable feature is the Guy Fawkes mask.
What is Anonymous?
What website hosted one of the worst and most infamous cases of a known cyberattack and currently holds the record for the most people affected. The first attack occurred in 2013, and many more would continue over the next three years.
A team of Russian hackers targeted ______ 's database using backdoors, stolen backups, and access cookies to steal records from all user accounts, which included personally identifiable information.
What is Yahoo! ?
the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims
What is Terrorism?
What well known ransomware demanded around $300-$600 USD in bitcoin in 2017 that targeted windows systems and encrypted victims data?
What is WannaCry?
This Act, passed in 2000, prohibited actions that could “seriously interfere with or seriously disrupt an electronic system”
What is UK Terrorist Act?
Who created the virus ILOVEYOU?
What is Onel de Guzman?
This groups activity is routinely marked by posting of the Syrian flag on a victim’s website, with the group using techniques like phishing, DDoS attacks, spamming, and malware. They have targeted Twitter accounts as well as Facebook pages of influential people like Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
What is Syrian electronic army?
a global military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars
What is War on Terror?
a computer virus first discovered on 4 February 1991 in Australia. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls. It operates at a BIOS level. It activates only on March 6th each year.
What is Michelangelo?
What act was recently passed by Joe Biden regarding cyberterrorism, with the intention of connecting the CISA with state governments; Under the new law, these bodies will be able to share security tools, procedures, and information more easily?
What is The State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act of 2021?
The Russian Persistent Threat group that utilized the BlackEnergy 3 malware to attack a Ukrainian power grid in 2015.
What is Sandworm?
this group was founded as a spinoff of Anonymous after the 2011 HBGarry Hack. Their slogan said, “laughing at your security since 2011”. Their existence was announced to the world when they first hacked Fox.com, followed by Sony Pictures, in 2011.
What is LulzSec?
the use of cyber attacks against an enemy state, causing comparable harm to actual warfare and/or disrupting vital computer systems. Some intended outcomes could be espionage, sabotage, propaganda, manipulation or economic warfare.
What is Cyberwarfare?
a series of DDoS cyberattacks targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
What is the 2007 Estonian cyber attacks.
This organization was created in 2001 and contains the National Infrastructure advisory council (NIAC) and the Presidents Critical Infrastructure Protection Board (PCIPB)
What is the Office of Homeland Security?
Who created one of the most known computer worms to degrade Iran's nuclear weapons program? It was discovered in 2010 but was thought to have been in development since 2005.
What is The United States & Israel?
This group was started by a 16-year in old in 2010 who used the pseudonym Trick. The activity of this group included hacking into NATO, Facebook, Daily Mail UK site, the English Defence League, which included Tony Blair’s account. Although they supposedly broke up in 2012, they resurfaced in 2015 as a white-hat security research group.
What is TeaMp0isoN?
multidimensional and difficult to detect or attribute. They combine conventional and unconventional tools and tactics. __________ are posed by adversaries who can simultaneously employ conventional and non-conventional means adaptively in pursuit of their objectives.
What is Hybrid Threat?
What was one of the first publicly reported cyber attacks on critical infrastructure/ a power grid?
What is the 2015 Ukrainian Power grid hack?
What does the USA PATRIOT Act stand for?
What is "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"?
What group executed the 2021 cyber-attack on the Colonial Pipeline?
What is DarkSide?
This attack, known as HTTP/2 “Rapid Reset,” abuses a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol.
What is HTTP/2 "Rapid Reset"