Cybersecurity Essentials: Chapter 3 Review (Part 2 of 2)

Question 1

What attack is when a criminal sees PINs or access codes by watching a user?

Accepted Answer

Shoulder Surfing

Question 2

What is used to prevent piggybacking/tailgating?

Accepted Answer

Mantraps

Question 3

What attack is built to cause a user to react out of fear or cause irrational behaviour?

Accepted Answer

Hoaxes

Question 4

What is when an attacker examines all network traffic as it passes through their NIC?

Accepted Answer

Sniffing

Question 5

What is a type of attack that interrupts network services to devices using a single device?

Accepted Answer

Denial of Service (DoS)

Question 6

True or False: WPA2 cannot be successfully attacked.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 7

What type of attack happens data goes past the limits of the memory allocated for an app?

Accepted Answer

Buffer Overflow

Question 8

What is NOT a way to prevent deception-based attacks?

Accepted Answer

Up-to-Date Software

Question 9

What attack is when an attacker takes a portion of a communication and retransmits it later?

Accepted Answer

Replay Attack

Question 10

What attack is when a criminal follows an authorized person into a secure location?

Accepted Answer

Piggybacking/Tailgating

Question 11

What is a vulnerability in web applications that allows injection of scripts into websites?

Accepted Answer

Cross-site Scripting

Question 12

Which of the wireless security protocols is the weakest?

Accepted Answer

Wired Equivalency Protocol (WEP)

Question 13

What is NOT a way to protect against cyber attacks?

Accepted Answer

Educating Users

Question 14

What type of attack is when a criminal takes control of a mobile device communication?

Accepted Answer

Man-in-the-Mobile Attack

Question 15

What type of attack allows a criminal to execute any command on a target machine?

Accepted Answer

Remote Code Execution

Question 16

What is a type of attack that interrupts network services using multiple, coordinated devices?

Accepted Answer

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

Question 17

What is NOT a typical example of a spoofing attack?

Accepted Answer

ICMP Spoofing

Question 18

What type of attack uses an access point that looks legitimate, but steals user info?

Accepted Answer

Rogue Access Point

Question 19

What uses an access point that has higher power and higher gain to look better than other APs?

Accepted Answer

Evil Twin Attack

Question 20

What attack is the process of going through a target's trash to find info?

Accepted Answer

Dumpster Diving

Question 21

What type of attack targets databases used by websites?

Accepted Answer

XML/SQL Injection

Question 22

What attack is when a criminal pretends to be somebody else?

Accepted Answer

Impersonation

Question 23

What is the name of the collection of devices used to launch a DDoS attack?

Accepted Answer

Botnet

Question 24

What DoS attack method means sending a message that the receiver is unable to handle?

Accepted Answer

Maliciously Formed Packets

Question 25

What is an attack that uses Bluetooth to copy information from a victim's device?

Accepted Answer

Bluesnarfing

Question 26

What is the name for one of the devices that is used for a DDoS attack?

Accepted Answer

Zombie

Question 27

What is the name of mobile phone apps that behave in an annoying or undesirable way?

Accepted Answer

Grayware

Question 28

What is the attack where a criminal disrupts the transmission of data on radio waves?

Accepted Answer

Radio Frequency (RF) Jamming

Question 29

What is an attack that uses Bluetooth to send unauthorized messages to a victim?

Accepted Answer

Bluejacking

Question 30

What is one of the two ways to protect against dumpster diving?

Accepted Answer

Burn bags, Secure the dumpster

Question 31

What DoS attack method means the attacker sends an enormous quantity of data quickly?

Accepted Answer

Overwhelming Quantity of Traffic

Question 32

What attack is software programs that record keystrokes of the user of a system?

Accepted Answer

Keyboard Loggers

Question 33

What is the best way to protect against social engineering?

Accepted Answer

Educating Users

Question 34

True or False: Sniffing is used by network administrators.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 35

What type of attack is when attackers intercept communications between computers to steal info?

Accepted Answer

Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Question 36

What is NOT a way to protect against wireless and mobile device attacks?

Accepted Answer

Updating Software

Question 37

What is an impersonation attack which takes advantage of trust between two devices?

Accepted Answer

Spoofing

Question 38

What attack tries to exploit software vulnerabilities that are unknown?

Accepted Answer

Zero-Day Attack

Cybersecurity Essentials: Chapter 3 Review (Part 2 of 2)

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Cybersecurity Essentials: Chapter 3 Review (Part 2 of 2)

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