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WorksheetsCybersecurity Trivia Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
Spot the Lies:
Why are deepfakes called ‘deepfakes’?
A. People can’t tell the difference between what is real and what is fake.
B. The term ‘deep’ comes from the underlying technology of ‘deep learning’ which is a form of artificial intelligence.
C. Machine learning manipulates or generates visual and audio content with the intention to deceive.
D. All of the above
Spot the lies:
Disinformation can spread easily through fake accounts, which can be created by bots and / or humans. How many fake accounts do you think was taken down by Facebook in the year 2021?
A. More than 6 billion fake accounts
B. Slightly less than 5 billion fake accounts
C. About 2 billion fake accounts
D. Less than 1 billion fake accounts
Spot the Lies:
An organisation employing people to make deliberately offensive or provocative online posts in order to cause conflict or manipulate public opinion is known as (a) .
Spot the Lies:
In Singapore, fake news is combated by a regulation called POFMA. What does POFMA stand for?
(a)
Foreign Invaders
What is the most basic form of defense against a cyber attack to stop unusual network connections?
Anti-Virus
Firewalls
Encryption
Passwords
Foreign Invaders
Which of the following is an example of Internet Protocol (IP) spoofing?
SQL injections
Cross-Site scripting
ARP poisoning
Man-in-the-middle attack
Foreign Invaders
A botnet is_______.
A collection of computers that have been infected with blocks of code to perform malicious tasks
A computer virus that propagates itself from computer to computer via e-mail
A zombie controlled through a command-and-control server
An application program that attacks computer networks
Foreign Invaders
What is the name given to a cyberattack where the perpetrator seeks to make a machine unavailable to its intended users by temporarily disrupting its services, typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine in an attempt to overload it?
(a)
Gone ‘Fishing'
What should you do if you click on a phishing link? (You can select more than one option)
Disconnect your device from the internet.
Scan your system for malware.
Change your passwords.
Monitor for suspicious transactions on your accounts.
Gone ‘Fishing'
For the most part, phishing attacks arrive in email inboxes and on instant messages – but despite their technical trappings, their method represents an old category of fraud. Which terms best describes this method?
Impersonation
Extortion
Social Engineering
Password Cracking
Gone ‘Fishing’
We commonly see phishing as targeted to as many people as possible. What is the name for phishing that only targets bosses or senior executives to provide their company’s data or critical information?
Spear Phishing
Smishing
Clone Phishing
Whaling
Gone ‘Fishing’
Which of the following is not an example of phishing?
Vishing
Triggering
Pharming
Tabnabbing
White Hat, Black Hat, Grey Hat
Trying to break a password by trying all possible words is known as _______.
Social Engineering
A Key Logger
A Dictionary Attack
A Password Cracker
White Hat, Black Hat, Grey Hat
Their primary motivation is to find weaknesses in a company’s security to then either get paid by the company to fix it or to expose the weakness to other hackers. Who are they?
Grey Hat Hacker
Black Hat Hacker
White Hat Hacker
All of the above
Since both White Hat hackers and Black Hat hackers hack, how do we differentiate between a White Hat hacker and a Black Hat hacker?
(a)
White Hat, Black Hat, Grey Hat
Where did the name ‘White Hat hacker’ originate from?
Heroic ‘good’ knights wear white
'Good’ cowboys wear white hats
White is the lightest colour symbolising good
All of the above
