Cyber Security KS4

What is malware?

• Malicious software

• Software made by a company called Mal

• Malicious hardware

• Clothes that hackers wear

What does malicious mean?

• Something intended to do harm

• Something that makes you ill

• Something good

• Tasty

What is a Trojan malware?

• A type of malware that appears to be a legitimate program, but actually causes harm

• A type of malware that deletes programs on the system each time replacing them with itself

• A type of malware that spies on users without their knowledge

• A type of malware that removes and sends all of your files to a third party, over time so you don't notice

What is a worm?

• A standalone piece of malware that can self-replicate, mostly without human intervention

• A piece of code that gets embedded into every program on your computer

• A program that records user's actions

• A virus that doesn't usually self-replicate

What type of program can you install to prevent malware?

• Antivirus software
• Office software
• A new operating system
• A disk defragmenter

Which of these will not put you at risk of malware attacks?

• Opening email attachments from unknown sources.
• Downloading pirate movies from torrent services
• Not installing updates for your operating system
• Using a free operating system like Linux, as opposed to using Windows

What should a strong password include?

• At least one upper case letter

• Short, easy to guess words

• Date of birth

• At least one number

• At least 8 characters

What is blagging?

• Observing a person's private info over their shoulder

• Cyber attack to redirect a website's traffic to another, fake site

• Inventing a scenario to target someone into divulging information

• A virus that registers key strokes

What does DDOS stand for?

• Denial Data Operation System

• Domain Data Overwrite Service

• Distributed Domain Or Service

• Distributed Denial Of Service

If testers have little to no information regarding the system they are trying to hack they are:

• White box testing

• Yellow box testing

• Black box testing

• Blue box testing