KYT/CAT - Cyber Security

The integrity threat can be examplified by which of the following scenarios:

• Customer records were hidden, but might have been slightly garbled

• Every customer record is exposed by nation states

• The entire company database was posted to the Internet.

• Every customer record is stolen by hackers

Let's talk about adversary types: we can say that Hacktivists are?

• Motivated by greed, well funded and being tracked in increasingly efficient ways

• Motivated by curiosity and predictable

• Motivated by anger and unpredictable and well organized

• Motivated by dominance and being supported by world class means

The art and science of breaking code is called

• Cryptography

• Cryptanalysis

• Encryption

• Decryption

The art and science of creating code is called

• Cryptography

• Cryptanalysis

• Encryption

• Decryption

Distribution, amplification, spoofing and reflection are fundamental notions of what ?

• Integrity threats
• Adversary types
• Availability threats
• Confidentiality threats

Let's talk about adversary types: we can say that vandals are?

• Motivated by curiosity and predictable
• Motivated by greed, well funded and being tracked in increasingly efficient ways
• Motivated by anger and unpredictable and well organized
• Motivated by dominance and being supported by world class means

In the words of Ritchie and Thompson, what is a Shell ?

• The command interpreter that looks after the communication between the user and the system
• The OS that manages the control of the machine and supervises the scheduling of the programs
• None of these answers
• The utility tasks

Embedding a trap door into a login program results in which of the following:

• An improved version of the login program with enhanced secret access
• A trojan horse
• A login program that requires encryption support
• A compliant version of the code with respect to some process frameworks

What's the equivalent of the Nobel Prize of computing

• Carnegie Mellon Prize
• Japan Prize
• Bletchley Award
• Turing award

Brute force attacks are good for which of the following scenarios ?

• Lots of attack choices, Hoping the size of encryption is not too big
• Fewer attack choices, and most will not work
• Large attack domain size that can be enumerated and traversed with automation
• Small number of attacks, where each is complex