Cybersecurity Exam Week 2

Security questions should be answered with a fictious answer instead of the accurate answer.

• True

• False

Virtually anyone could type in a person's username and pretend to be that person.

• True

• False

Passwords are still considered a strong defense against attackers.

• True

• False

FACTA grants consumers the right to request one free credit report from each of the three national credit-reporting firms every 12 months.

• True

• False

The weakness of passwords centers on human memory.

• True

• False

When creating passwords, the most important principle is that length is more important than complexity.

• True

• False

Impersonation is a technique used in social engineering.

• True

• False

What is it called if a user misspells the URL or uses the incorrect domain and is sent to a fake look-alike site?

• pharming

• phishing

• polling

• typo squatting

Which security technique requires an authorization by what the user knows and what the user has?

• special email account

• two-factor authorization

• biometrics

• social networking

What type of attack continuously enters different passwords against the same account?

• man in the middle

• brute force

• dictionary

• hash