Vocabulary
the state of being protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of electronic data, or the measures taken to achieve this.
What is Cybersecurity?
Write decimal 73 in binary
What is 1001001?
This is the assurance that information is not disclosed to unauthorized individuals, groups, processes, or devices.
What is Confidentiality?
These people may perform network penetration tests in attempt to compromise networks and systems by using their knowledge of computer security systems to discover network vulnerabilities.
What are white hat hackers?
threatens to publish the victim’s personal data or permanently block access to it unless a ransom is paid off
What is ransomware?
The study of secure communications techniques that allow only the sender and intended recipient of a message to view its contents.
What is cryptography?
Write decimal 99 in binary
This security measure is designed to establish the validity of a transmission, message, or originator, or a means of verifying an individual’s authorization to receive specific information.
What is Authentication?
Threat actors can be divided into different types based on their methods and motivations. This type of hacker usually targets government agencies, corporations, or other entities they are protesting
What is a hacktivist?
causes pop-up and pop-under advertisements on user's system. Often installs with bundles of freeware programs or when visiting a web site with it running in the background.
What is adware?
provide hackers with complete administrative access to the remote system an can bypass security such as firewall
What is a back door?
Write hexadecimal A in binary
What is 1010?
The accuracy and completeness of vital information must be safeguarded. Data should not be altered or destroyed during transmission and storage.
What is integrity?
These hackers primary motivation is to find weaknesses in a companies security to then either get paid by the company or to expose the weakness to other hackers.
sluggish internet, programs crashing, settings changed, passwords changed, these are a few of the signs of this...
What is how to detect malware on your computer?
A group of eight bits joined together. Eight bits put together. 10100000
What is a Byte?
Write 11110001 in hexadecimal.
What is F1?
Assurance that the sender of information is provided with proof of delivery
What is non-repudiation of user data?
This hacker's primary motivation is financial/personal gain.
Software that enables a user to obtain secret information about another computer's activities.
What is spyware?
the most common format for text files in computers on the internet where each character is represented by a unique 7-bit binary code
What is ASCII?
Write binary 01011101 in hexadecimal.
What is 5D?
Maintaining equipment, performing hardware repairs, keeping operating systems and software up to date, and creating backups ensure the availability of the network and data to the authorized users.
What is availability?
The term originates from 1950s westerns
What is a black hat hacker?
Computer software used to prevent, detect and remove malicious software
What is antivirus?