Cybersecurity Essentials Chapter 1 Review

This type of hacker steals social security and credit card numbers and resells them to the highest bidder.

• White Hat

• Black Hat

• Gray Hat

• Red Hat

This is the name given to amateur hackers.

• Hacktivist

• Black Hat

• Gray Hat

• Script Kiddies

A person that works for a company finding their vulnerabilities and reports them for fixes before they can be exploited.

• White Hat

• Black Hat

• Gray Hat

• Script Kiddies

A hacker that compromises a network without permission but then discloses the vulnerability without receiving personal gain or causing damage.

• White Hat

• Black Hat

• Gray Hat

• Script Kiddies

A hacker that could be considered white or black hat depending on your perspective, that targets government agencies.

• State-Sponsored

• Vulnerability Broker

• Gray Hat

• Script Kiddies

A hacker that hacks for a specific cause.

• Hacktivist

• Vulnerability Broker

• Gray Hat

• White Hat

This category of threat is actually from current employees authorized to be on the network.

• Internal

• External

• Gray Hat

• Black Hat

This type of attack uses a botnet to make a resource unavailable to others.

• DDoS

• DoS

• Algorithm

• APT

In this type of attack a computer trying to convert a domain name to an IP address can be compromised.

• DNS Poisoning

• DoS

• Algorithm

• APT

This type of attack can disable a computer by forcing it to max out its hardware resources.

• DNS Poisoning

• DoS

• Algorithm

• APT