Cybersecurity 104

A targeted email attack sent to Sara, the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), is known as which of the following?

• Whaling

• Bluesnarfing

• Vishing

• Dumpster diving

Employee badges are encoded with a private encryption key and specific personal information. The encoding is then used to provide access to the network. Which of the following describes this access control type?

• Smartcard

• Token

• Discretionary access control

• Mandatory access control

A security administrator is observing congestion on the firewall interfaces and a high number of half open incoming connections from different external IP addresses. Which of the following attack types is underway?

• Cross-site scripting

• SPIM

• Client-side

• DDoS

An employee is granted access to only areas of a network folder needed to perform their job. Which of the following describes this form of access control?

• Separation of duties

• Time of day restrictions

• Implicit deny

• Least privilege

A username provides which of the following?

• Biometrics

• Identification

• Authorization

• Authentication

A security administrator has just finished creating a hot site for the company. This implementation relates to which of the following concepts?

• Confidentiality

• Succession planning

• Integrity

• Availability

Which of the following is an example of multifactor authentication?

• Credit card and PIN

• Username and password

• Password and PIN

• Fingerprint and retina scan

What type of attack uses many systems to flood the resources of a target, thus making the target unavailable?

• DoS

• ping sweep

• DDoS

• spoof

What name is given to hackers who hack for a cause?

• white hat

• hactivist

• hacker

• blue hat

Pick three types of records that cyber criminals would be interested in stealing from organizations. (Choose three.)

• education

• medical

• employment

• game