The Need for Cybersecurity

Examples of Personal Data (select all that is correct) are

• Medical Records

• Weather Records

• Education Records

• Tax Records

What are the three important characteristics of security ?

• Encryption

• Confidentiality

• Availability

• Integrity

Examples of intellectual data are (select all that is correct)

• Patents

• Trademarks

• payroll

• trade secrets

How can we guarantee the availability of data ?

• encryption

• hashing

• access control

• redundancy

White hat attackers

• are amateurs with little or no skills using existing tools or instructions found online to attack

• break into systems with permission to discover weaknesses

• take advantage of any vulnerability for illegal personal, financial or political gain

• compromise systems without permission and not harmful

A buffer overflow vulnerability

• exists when data can be written beyond the limits of a memory area

• forces programs to behave in an unintended way

• protects sensitive data through authentication, authorization and encryption

• exists when processes are improperly ordered or timed

An adware is a type of malware that

• track and spy on the user

• delivers advertisements, usually comes with spyware

• holds a computer system or the data captive until a payment is made

• persuade the user to take a specific action based on fear

A rootkit

• modifies the operating system to create a backdoor

• is a malicious executable code that is attached to other executable files

• replicate themselves by independently exploiting vulnerabilities in networks

• carries out malicious operations under the guise of a desired operation

What are the systems of a malware (select all that is correct) ?

• increase in CPU usage

• computer freezes or crashes often

• unknown processes running

• increase in web browsing speed

Pretexting is a social engineering technique to

• gain access to a secure location by quickly following an authorized person

• use a mobile phone's texting feature to gain access into a computer system

• request personal information from a party in exchange for something

• gain access to privileged data by calling an individual and lying to them