What is Cyber Crime?
___ is illegal online activity, often in the form of stealing data for financial gain.
What is cybercrime?
According to a 2024 report, the most complaints for cybercrime were received from which 3 states?
A. California, Texas and Florida
B. California, Kentucky and Montana
C. Montana, North Dakota and Mississippi
D. Arkansas, Texas and Kentucky
What is California, Texas and Florida?
PSP stands for ___, relevant to student's individual paths to protection.
What is a personal safety plan?
In June 2025, ___ suffered a major cyberattack that exposed about 420 GB of data, affecting 870,000 individuals.
A. Brown University
B. Columbia University
C. Cornell University
D. Dartmouth College
What is Columbia University?
This official law-based source (NAAG) explains cybercrimes, examples, and resources to turn to when facing cybercrimes.
What is the National Association of Attorneys General?
Some examples of cybercrime include cyber bullying and stalking, unauthorized data exfiltration, and malware threats and attacks such as ___ (software that steals data and requires payment for restored access).
What is ransomware?
Education cyberattacks increased this much from 2020-2021.
A. 25%
B. 50%
C. 75%
D. 100%
What is 75%?
One way to protect yourself (in your personal safety plan) from cybercrime in college is to implement ___ (MFA), which adds more security than just a pin or password.
What is multi-factor authentication?
The California college's third breach in 2023, in October the Akira ransomware gang gained possession of over 400 gigabytes of school information.
A. Stanford University
B. University of California, Los Angeles
C. California Institute of Technology
D. University of Southern California
What is Stanford University?
Asimily.com's site on campus cyberattacks in 2023 also references this telecommunications company's Data Breach Investigation Report, which explained that 8% of cyberattacks are espionage, while 92% are financially motivated.
A. Comcast
B. Verizon
C. AT&T
D. T-Mobile
What is Verizon?
___ is sending fraudulent emails or messages to trick users into revealing sensitive information.
What is phishing?
A DDoS attack (which stand for ___) is a common example of cybercrime where users are not able to access certain online resources because of fake internet traffic. One example according to Cloudfare was in November 2021, when Azure had the largest DDoS attack to that point in history, reaching a throughput of 3.47 Tbps (tera-bits per second).
What is a distributed denial of service attack?
These people use cybercrime for money, exploitation, and identity theft. We can use the information we know about cybercrime to protect ourselves (in our personal safety plan) through endpoint protection, strengthening our personal security, and preparing for data breaches.
Who are cybercriminals?
There was a major data breach at this college in August 2023 where 230,000 students, alumni and employees were victims of stolen personal information. This university later faced lawsuits for negligence with information.
A. University of Texas at Austin
B. University of Michigan
C. University of Chicago
D. University of Washington
What is the University of Michigan?
According to Campus Safety Magazine, in 2024 over this many cyberattacks occurred in the education center on average each week.
A. 1500
B. 3500
C. 4500
D. 7000
What is 3500?
A distributed Denial of Service attack floods a network or server with traffic to make it unavailable.
What is a DDoS attack?
This type of data, like credit card numbers or Social Security Numbers, are often sold on the dark web. One example is in 2013, where 3 billion Yahoo accounts were compromised and this type of data was taken.
What is sensitive/personal data?
As part of your personal safety plan, watch out for ___ (voice phishing) and ___ (SMS phishing), which are phone and text scams, respectively.
What are vishing and smishing?
According to the UC Riverside website, this school was the first American college to announce permanent closure due to a ransomware attack on the school.
A. Lincoln College
B. Northland College
C. St. Andrews University
D. Fontbonne University
What is Lincoln College?
According to this cybersecurity platform, 3.7% of top university online domains were unmaintained in 2023, making them vulnerable to cyberattacks.
A. CrowdStrike Falcon
B. Fortinet FortiGate
C. Microsoft Defender/Sentinel
D. UpGuard
What is UpGuard?
This crime occurs when someone steals personal information like your Social Security Number to pretend to be you.
What is identity theft?
This is the process of converting data into coded form to prevent unauthorized access. Examples include VPNs and HTTPS websites.
What is encryption?
You receive a text message from an unknown sender to click a link, and you do. What should you do now?
A. Nothing, they won't actually hack me
B. Update your passwords and monitor your accounts for fraudulent activity
C. Close the link quickly
D. See what the link opened up and scroll through it
What is "update your passwords and monitor your accounts for fraudulent activity"?
This private Catholic university had their data stolen in December 2022 by the Vice Society gang, who didn't receive their ransom demand for the data and then published it on the dark web in February 2023.
A. Mount Saint Mary College
B. Georgetown University
C. Villanova University
D. University of St. Thomas
What is Mount Saint Mary College?
This agency (CISA) provides tips on preventing cyber attacks and protecting critical online infrastructure.
What is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency?