Lesson 5 - Network Threats

Which of the following are examples of Cybercrime?

• Planting Viruses

• Acquiring/Using personal or confidential data

• Disrupting a Website/Service

• All of the above

What do Cyber Attacks take advantage of?

• Human Weakness or Gullibility

• Strong Passwords

• Virus Protection Software

• Technical weaknesses in computers and networks

Human weakness can make computer systems vulnerable to what?

• Social Engineering

• Nothing

• Phishing

• Brute Force Attacks

What is Social Engineering?

• Tricking people into meeting you

• Disguising your identity

• Conning individuals into giving away private information

What is Phishing?

• Fishing but on the internet

• A sometimes sophisticated way of gaining personal information by pretending to be from a business/bank

• Pretending to be a different person

• The process of making a stronger password

What should you look out for from a Phishing attack?

• Not a personalised greeting

• The sender's address doesn't look right or official enough

• Request for personal information like bank details

• Sense of Urgency

• Spelling and Grammar mistakes

What is a Brute Force attack?

• Gaining confidential information from somebody

• Using viruses

• Conning people

• When a hacker manages to workout a password in order to gain access

Technical weaknesses can make computer systems vulnerable to:

• Exploding

• Malware

• Denial of Service (DoS) attacks

• Data Interception and Theft

What is a virus?

• A program which infects other data files and programs

• A program which improves other data files and programs

• A program which copies other data files and programs

• Something that makes the computer feel bad

How could systems become infected?

• USB Devices

• Opening Emails

• Not updating anti-virus

• Downloading fake software