Information Security

You receive an email with the subject “Immediate Action Required needed on your credit card account.” Why is this suspicious?

• Because it is illegal to send credit offers in email

• Because your credit card company does not use email

• This email is not suspicious

• The subject line is demanding immediate action

How should you confirm the legitimacy of an email?

• Contact the sender through a method not described in the email

• Reply to the email

• Send a letter to the address listed in the email

• Call the phone number listed in the email

You receive an email from Human Resources Department. The email asks for your birthdate and home address to set up your retirement account. You should:

• Forward the email to your financial advisor

• Reply to the email with the required information

• Ignore the email and directly contact your Human Resource representatives to see if the email is legitimate.

• Reply to the email to confirm with your Human Resources department and then send the requested information

you receive an unexpected email from a co-worker, asking you to review an attached document. You should.

• Open the attachment and review it immediately

• Reply to the email to confirm the attachment came from your co-worker

• Without replying to the email, confirm that your co-worker sent the attachment

• Download the attachment and wait to open it until you can confirm with your co-worker

What might phishing emails try to get you to do?

• Click Links

• Download files

• All of these

• Fill out forms

What is the goal behind phishing emails?

• Gain private information

• All of these

• Lower your defenses

• Help attack other targets

You receive an email explaining that you won a tablet. What should you do next?

• Provide the required information and request overnight shipping

• Ignore and delete the email

• Follow the links in the email to investigate the offer further

• Forward the email to your friend so they can receive a free tablet too

You are visiting your favourite website and it warns you that your Flash plugin is out of date. What should you do next?

• Install the update from your favorite website

• Install the update using a private browsing session

• Only download the update from the official source

• Ignore updates on your computer

You found a USB drive and want to return it to the owner. You wonder if information on the drive could help you find the owner. What should you do with it?

• Ask a qualified IT person for help

• Drop the flash drive into a mailbox

• Look for the owner information by inserting the drive and looking through the files

• Put the flash drive in a drawer until you have the chance to update your antivirus

How can malware be distributed?

• Found USB drives

• Email attachments

• All of these

• Browser Plugins