Cyber Crime

A cyber crime in which a target or targets are contacted by email, telephone or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking and credit card details, and passwords.

• Cyber criminal

• Phishing

• Attack password

• Online predator

What are the motives behind cyber crime?

• Demanding ransom

• Propagating religious or political beliefs

• Financial loss to the target

• Information thefts and manipulating data

• All of the above

If you receive an email from a well-known company, but its name is misspelt in the sender’s address, you should:

• click on the link in the email to check if it’s genuine

• reply, pointing out the error

• report it as a possible phishing scam

• forward the email to a friend to check

What is phishing?

• When you catch fish
• Code that redirects you to a different website.
• A way of tricking people to provide their personal information.
• Code that redirects a user to a fake website

What advice would you give to anyone suspicious of a website?

• Check the URL (website address)
• Login, and hope for the best
• Call your parents

Which of the following is not a type of cyber crime?

• Thefting

• Installing anti-virus

• Forgery

• Hacking

Cybercrimes can be divided into the following categories:

• against an Individual person

• against property

• against an organization/society

• All of these

Accessing Wi-Fi dishonestly is a cyber-crime.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Accessing Wi-Fi dishonestly is considered a cyber-crime, making the statement true.

___________ is a violent act done using the Internet, which either threatens any technology user or leads to loss of life or otherwise harms anyone in order to accomplish political gain.

• Cyber-warfare

• Cyber campaign

• Cyber-terrorism

• Cyber attack

Answer explanation

Cyber-terrorism is the correct choice as it involves violent acts using the Internet for political gain, threatening or harming individuals.

Ransomware attack is basically kidnapping of ____________.

• File

• Document

• Video

• Message

• All of these