Quiz - Garden State Cyber Unit 2.1

Which two of the following step of hacking are most likely to involve the use of social engineering? (pick 2)

• Recon / footprinting
• Gaining Access
• Scanning / Probing
• Escalating Privileges
• Exploiting

What is the goal of social engineering?

• To make people behave better
• To help people make more friends
• To get an authorized user to give information to an unauthorized person
• To have an unauthorized user to determine a user's password using brute force

What is the main method used in social engineering?

• Brute Force
• Deception
• Complex Algorithms
• Ransom attacks

Which is NOT a reason that Social Engineering is so successful?

• Humans want to be helpful
• Humans make sloppy mistakes
• Humans want to avoid confrontation
• Humans are good at problem solving

Which of the following Social Engineering techniques are best protected against by use of a security guard or turnstile?

• Piggybacking
• Shoulder Surfing
• Dumpster Diving
• Baiting

Which of the following is NOT a technique of social engineering?

• Shoulder Surfing

• Kneecapping

• Piggybacking

• Dumpster Diving

What is social engineering?

What is it called when you use a phone to perform a social engineering attack

Match the following

• Scareware

• making people believe that malware has been installed and that they need to give you access or install software to “fix it”

• Dumpster diving

• this is where someone goes through a door after you have swiped in OR you hold the door open for them without making them authenticate.

• Pretexting

• retrieve discarded paper information

• Piggybacking

• offering something of value such as a prize if you click or leaving a USB drive to be found.

• Baiting

• Wearing a “uniform” or using authority –an IT Tech support type of uniform that will get access to a computer