Multiple Choice Questions

During a confidential meeting, a government discovers its classified communications have been intercepted and transmitted to a foreign agency.

• Cyber Espionage

• Cyber Terrorism

• Net Extortion

• Cyber Fraud

Hackers coordinated a massive attack on national power systems to cause panic and disrupt economic activity. This act best illustrates _______.

• Cyber Terrorism

• Cyber Espionage

• Virus Dissemination

• Cyber Fraud

By flooding a company’s web server with millions of fake access requests, attackers make the website inaccessible to real customers. The crime is called a _______.

• Trojan Horse

• Denial of Service (DoS) Attack

• Phishing Scam

• Cyber Espionage

Hidden code within a legitimate application secretly gives hackers administrator access to a user’s system. This is an example of a _______.

• Rootkit

• Worm

• Virus

• Trojan Horse

Multiple infected computers worldwide are remotely commanded to attack a government website at the same time. What kind of attack does this describe?

• Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

• Worm Propagation

• Cyber Espionage

• Spoofing

A university’s entire grading system is compromised due to unpatched vulnerabilities in its old database software. Which preventive measure could have avoided this?

• Regular System Updates

• Two-Factor Authentication

• Antivirus Installation

• Data Encryption

A university’s entire grading system is compromised due to unpatched vulnerabilities in its old database software. Which preventive measure could have avoided this?

• Regular System Updates

• Two-Factor Authentication

• Antivirus Installation

• Data Encryption

Instead of technical hacking, a con artist persuades employees to reveal passwords by pretending to be IT support. This illustrates which cyber tactic?

• Social Engineering

• Phishing

• Spoofing

• Cyber Espionage

Instead of technical hacking, a con artist persuades employees to reveal passwords by pretending to be IT support. This illustrates which cyber tactic?

• Social Engineering

• Phishing

• Spoofing

• Cyber Espionage

Attackers modify e-commerce transaction codes so that customer payments are secretly rerouted to their own account. Which cybercrime is illustrated?

• Cyber Fraud

• Data Interception

• Cyber Espionage

• Net Extortion