Cybersecurity Awareness Quiz

What is the primary purpose of cybersecurity awareness?

• To increase the number and quality of national cybersecurity awareness campaigns

• To promote cyber threats and risk

• To inform citizens on best practices and proactive measures

• To facilitate national cybersecurity awareness campaigns

Which of the following is a cybersecurity awareness tip for phishing e-mails?

• Respond to requests for personal information via e-mail

• Click on any links listed in the e-mail message

• Use anti-virus and anti-spyware software and update them regularly

• Enter personal information in a pop-up screen

What should be done to protect data on mobile devices?

• Disable Bluetooth when required

• Do not store the portable devices securely

• Do not password protect the portable device

• Do not back up critical information

What is the primary role of White Hat Hackers?

• To gain unauthorized access to a system

• To modify software to access undesirable features

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

• To find out weaknesses in a computer or a network system

What is the primary purpose of a firewall?

• To hide the existence of certain processes or programs

• To send spam or make denial-of-service attacks

• To gather information about a person or organization without their knowledge

• To keep unwanted intruders outside a computer system or network

What is the primary purpose of a Trojan?

• To make free long-distance phone calls

• To gather information about a person or organization without their knowledge

• To destroy files and alter information

• To copy itself and typically have a detrimental effect

What is the primary purpose of a Denial-of-Service Attack (DoS)?

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

• To make a server or a network resource unavailable to users

What is the primary purpose of a Logic Bomb?

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

• To trigger a malicious action when certain conditions are met

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

What is the primary purpose of a Cross-site Scripting (XSS)?

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

• To inject client-side script into Web pages viewed by other users

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

What is the primary purpose of a Buffer Overflow?

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

• To occur when more data is written to a block of memory than the buffer is allocated to hold

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun

• To exploit security weaknesses for fun