Cybersecurity: Case Study 5.18

Cybersecurity: Case Study 5.18

Assessment

Passage

Computers

11th Grade

Medium

Created by

Michael Goddard

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5 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the main vulnerability discussed in the article?

VENOM

Heartbleed

Shellshock

Spectre

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which hypervisor is affected by the VENOM vulnerability?

QEMU

VMWare

Microsoft Hyper-V

VirtualBox

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What component of the QEMU hypervisor does the VENOM vulnerability affect?

Floppy disk controller

Network interface

CPU scheduler

Memory manager

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the potential impact of the VENOM vulnerability according to Dmitri Alperovitch?

Full system access

Limited application access

No impact

Minor data leak

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the recommended short-term action to mitigate the VENOM vulnerability?

Patch and reboot systems

Ignore the vulnerability

Wait for a public announcement

Switch to a different hypervisor