Cybersecurity 1

What is the term for sending a fake email that looks like it's from a real company, to fool people?

• Fishing

• Farming

• Phishing

• Pharming

Which of these is pharming?

• Having users directed to a fake website instead of a genuine website, to fool them

• Using software to watch what users do on their computer

• Sending a fake email that looks genuine, to fool users

• Buying collections of user profiles from hackers

How can you be sure that a website is genuine

• It will have a digital certificate

• The text on the website will be spelled correctly

• The website will have the real company logo on it

• You found the website using a search engine

How does a DNS (Domain Name Service) Server work?

• The user computer sends the web address to the DNS Server, and the DNS Server directs the user computer to the correct IP address

• The user computer sends its IP address to the DNS Server, and the DNS Server directs the user computer to the correct IP address

• The user computer sends some keywords to the DNS Server, and the DNS Server provides a list of sites that contain those words

• The server is overloaded with requests and cannot perform it's usual function

How does a DOS (Denial of Service) attack affect a server?

• The server is overloaded with requests and cannot perform it's usual function

• The server cannot be found because it's address has been removed from the Domain Name Service

• A hacker has removed the server from a search engine's database

• A virus has infected the server and crashed the operating system

Which of these is the best defence against hackers?

• A firewall

• A phishing filter

• Up to date antivirus software

• A trojan

Which of these is a virus that pretends to be a harmless file?

• trojan

• worm

• tracking cookie

• cipher text

What is "cipher text"

• Data that has been encrypted

• Data that has been decrypted

• The key used to decrypt data

• A virus that encrypts your files then demands payment to decrypt them

Which of these is a virus that encrypts your files then demands payment to decrypt them

• ransomware

• worm

• spyware

• trojan

Which of these uses a key-pair, a public key and a private key

• asymmetric encryption

• symmetric encryption