Ch1.1.4 ( Cybersecurity Threats 2 )

A network (botnet) of infected hosts called zombies controlled by handler systems

A _______ is a group of bots in hundreds of thousands of bots connected through the internet

Intercepts or modifies communications between two devices

Phishing is a common social engineering attack

A kind of cyber attack involving psychological manipulation techniques that exploit human error

By _______ , other humans and machines can easily read plain text or unsecured passwords

Attackers use popular search terms and use _______ to push malicious sites to higher up the ranks of search results

A hacker systematically tries every word in a list of commonly used words as a password