Cyber Defense Quiz

What is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

• An attempt by a government to deny Internet access to its citizens

• An attempt to deny access to a website by flooding the website’s servers with millions of requests from different computers

• An attempt by one user to deny service to another user by posting malicious material on a social network

• An attempt by an Internet user to access private information stored in a private database

Cybercriminals typically look for a system _______ to exploit for their own benefit.

• with a virus

• without a firewall

• with vulnerabilities

• with a strong password

There has been a recent attack on the organization that you are interning for. Your manager knows that multiple computers were used to carry out the attack. Which type of attack uses more than one computer to carry out the attack?

• DDoS

• Man-in-the-middle attack

• Worm

• XSS

Your friend receives a DM (direct message) in her social media account. When she clicks on the link, provided she is prompted to put in her username and password. She doesn’t trust that this account is who they say they are. What type of attack attempts to insert a computer or system between two systems that are communicating?

• DDoS

• Man-in-the-middle attack

• Worm

• XSS

Which type of attack blocks authorized users from accessing their network?

• Social engineering

• Rootkit

• Dos

• XSS

You are using your browser to research a topic for an upcoming project. When you visit one site in particular, you are instantly redirected to a site that does not seem safe. What type of attack could you have just experienced?

• DDoS

• SQLi

• Worm

• XSS

Your uncle is complaining that his computer has gotten slower since he downloaded this new game onto his computer. What type of attack could this be?

• Adware

• Shareware

• Trojan

• Virus

A computer ____ is a malicious code which self-replicates by copying itself to other applications.

• program

• malware

• virus

• worm

Which type of attack plays on the fact that users are usually the weakest link in security?

• Cross Site Scripting

• Rootkit

• Social Engineering

• Spyware

Which of the following programming languages is associated with XSS?

• CSS

• HTML

• JavaScript

• SQL