Cybersecurity Unit 2

What motivational technique would use the prospect of romance to influence a victim?

Which of the following is not a persistent threat?

This virus deleated hard drives and was the first to attack hardware.

The first widely distributed macro virus, it utilized a Word doc.

Which of the following is not an Attack Strategy

Why is it good practice to show full file extensions on all files?

The process of gathering information on an organization

A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate or desirable software.

Which of the following is not a social engineering technique?

A defensive hacker

A malware program that includes a back door that allows administrative control over the target computer.

A type of malware designed to execute only under predefined conditions.

Which of the following is not a common thing you can do to prevent malware.

The process of correcting problems. Your antivirus software will prompt you to do this if it notices an issue.

Which of the following is not an example of an internal threat agent?

This worm exploited Windows and created multiple backdoors to re-attack computers.

One of the first viruses. It was widespread in the 1990s. It infects the master boot record of a hard drive.

Only give people the system access they absolutely need.

A social engineerting tactic that gets victims to overexplain and thus reveal information.

The core of social engineering is...

The attack involves standing behind someone while that person works on a computer or reviews documents.

A defense methodology that relies on constant change.

A self-replicating program that works without an activation mechanism.

A motivational technique that name drops your boss.

A type of malware that uses legitimate programs to infect a computer.