E-Safety: Cybersecurity - Year 7 Quiz

What is E-Safety?

• Knowing how to be safe online

• Knowing how to be safe in a public place

• Knowing how to cross a road

• Knowing how to be safe in school

How can you tell that a person on a social networking site is who they say they are?

• By asking them to post a photograph of themselves

• Because they talk about friends that you both know

• You can’t tell

• Because they are really friendly and genuine

Gaining illegal access to a computer system.

• Hacking

• Spam

• Malicious Software

• Virus

Never give this out over the phone, through email or on the Internet.

• Personal Information
• Free money
• Tomorrow's lunch choices
• Baseball scores

What is phishing?

• scams through websites
• scams through emails
• scams through phone calls
• scams through text messages

If you receive a suspicious email, you should

• open it up and click on any links.
• reply to the sender asking them to leave you alone.
• delete the email without opening it.
• delete your email account.

What is Malware?

• Bad computer equipment

• Pop up adverts on your computer

• Software designed to do harm to a computer

• Fake web sites

How can you protect your computer against malware?

• Put a lock on it.
• Install anti-malware software to scan and delete harmful files.

A friend meets someone online who tells them they are the same age. So it is safe to share personal information?

• True

• False

Not everyone we meet in chat rooms or online is who they say they are? They could be acting like someone else.

• True

• False