Cyber - 1.2.4 Activity - Securing Your Browser

Question 1

What are the 4 parts of a domain name?

Accepted Answer

protocol, sub-domain, domain, file path

Question 2

Beside HTTPS, what else indicates a website secures its data transmission?

Accepted Answer

The presence of a "lock" icon and a site certificate

Question 3

Any site you login to or submit form data to should have HTTPS.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Illegitimate websites setup by cyber criminals also have the ability to use HTTPS on their site.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

HTTPS provides security by encrypting data to and from a site.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

HTTPS secures all data in and out of your browser while HTTP only secures data out such as data submitted through a form

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Typosquatting is a practice where cyber criminals...

Accepted Answer

setup domain names that are "typos" of legitimate domain. names.

Question 8

A domain owner can create sub-domains and can be named anything including "google".

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Downloading files from the web are a common ways malware enters a system.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

In the domain https://amazon.mtsi.edu, "amazon" is the...

Accepted Answer

sub-domain

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