General Information
Random seemingly unrelated facts, numbers, words, or statistics.
What is a Data?
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?
When someone uses another person's PII (personal identifying information) without their permission to commit fraud or other crimes.
What is Identity Theft?
An electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting two or more pieces of evidence.
What is Multi Factor Authentication?
This ensures that only authorized parties can view information.
What is confidentiality?
They are people who try to gain access to computers remotely to learn more and for intellectual curiousity.
Who are Hackers?
It may be used to inject keystroke into a system, used to hack a system, steal victims essential and credential data can inject payload to the victim's computers.
What is a rubber ducky?
The most common authentication method requiring a username and additional field to log in.
What is Password Authentication?
This is another name for unsolicited e-mail messages.
What is spam?
Individuals who use hacking with criminal intent.
Who are Crackers?
Unwanted software on an internet browser that alters the activity of the browser.
What is a Browser Hijacking?
Type of authentication that relies on a finger tip or in futuristic movies an eye scan.
What is Biometrics Authentication?
An identifier that uniquely tracks actions to individuals.
What is an Account?
Harmful software that seeks to damage or exploit the computer that runs it or installs it.
What is Malware?
A cybersecurity attack where the perpetrator installs a Trojan horse on the victim's computer that is capable of modifying that user's web transactions.
What is Man in the Browser?
This is a single set of credentials to access multiple applications or websites.
What is SSO?
Private network tunnels through larger network.
What is a VPN?
A cyberattack that occurs when you click on a website and a message appears demanding you to pay a certain amount of money to unlock your computer.
What is Ransomware?
Malicious extensions that redirect users to phishing sites.
What is Spyware?
This type of authentication enables users to log in to accounts using a physical device, such as a smartphone, security key or smart card.
What is Token Authentication?