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?
You can protect your home PC with this product.
What is a PC firewall, Anti-Virus software, or Anti-SpyWare software?
(Source: http://www.superteachertools.us/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game.php?gamefile=17775#.YEMcnJNKjEY)
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 aims to make a service such as a website unusable by “flooding” it with malicious traffic or data from multiple sources (often botnets).
What is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)?
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 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?
Companies consider cybersecurity when instructing employees with a policy on BYOD, which is short for this.
What is Bring Your Own Device?
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/)
When a URL has this at the beginning, it means that the information entered into the site is encrypted
What is "https"?
(Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/quiz/cybersecurity-knowledge/)
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/)