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PY1 Module 6
PY1 Module 6
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cybersecurity, personal safety, pentesting, ciphers, etc
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1
It is common for phishing emails to contain imprecise use of the English language, often with spelling errors.
False
True
2
Hijacking a click intended for a genuine advertiser is called.....
clever clicking
pay per click
click fraud
click theft
3
In a worm attack, what is the first step?
The worm will propagate itself.
The worm downloads itself
Worm probes other machines looking for vulnerabilities.
The worm penetrates the machine, exploiting vulnerabilities
4
Shouldering is also known as....
shoulder surfing
shoulder blagging
shoulder pharming
shoulder spying
5
A more sophisticated form of phishing that targets specific individuals or groups of people is
C fishing.
spear phishing
gig phishing.
6
Which is an example of blagging?
an email disguised to look like it is for real
redirecting you to a malicious website
online dating scam
sharing a flashdrive with a coworker
7
In a ______ _______ testing, pen testers are given no information.
black box
gray box
white box
8
Using the ROT 1 encryption, BAT becomes
YXZ
CBU
TAB
9
A group of computers that coordinate their activity over the internet, often for malicious reasons:
Pharming
robot hackers
botnets
clickfarms
10
The Vigenère cipher uses a _____ as the key to the encryption.
hash
word
algorithm
eagle
11
Which encryption scrambles and unscrambles information using a singe key?
symmetric
asymmeteric
oppositional
ROT 1
12
Which is falls under a “fair use” act?
Trademark a copyright.
Limited use of a copyrighted work.
Use copyrighted work any way you choose.
13
A pentester spends too much time and resources on a job when it is no longer necessary: which mistake?
forgetting about ethics
relying exclusively on tools
Not accepting a system that is secure.
14
The last day to submit work for this semester is
December 25
December 11
15
When advertisers only pay the owners of a site when a user clicks on an ad, it is called...
clickit or tickit
cost per click
pay per visit
pay per click
16
Software that inserts copies of itself into applications and crucial parts data storage systems is a ..........
Trojan
worm
virus
supernova
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A piece of software that inserts copies of itself into applications and data systems is a ...
worm
Trojan
pharmic
virus
18
Pen tests are white hat attacks designed to ...
install a worm on a network.
punish black hat hackers.
Identify network security issues and other vulnerabilities
steal a company's data.
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This encryption takes information and creates a string of data that will always be the same given the same information?
Caesarshifting
stringing
hashing
20
A group of computers that coordinate their activity over the internet, often for malicious reasons:
click farms
phish pharmers
botnets
hashtaggers
21
Trojans can work in isolation or rely on networks
Sort of...
Yes, True
NO, False...
22
You should back up existing data and passwords before you install a new operating system.
Yes, true, always.
No, false, never.
Sometimes, if you feel like it.
23
If the pentester and the company know both don't know about the pen testing,
it is double blind.
it is blind.
it is called black box.
24
Malware that forces users to view advertising is called
shoppingware
AceHardware
adware
time-wasterware
25
A _________ is an attack in which malware redirects the victim to a malicious version of a website
botnet
pharming attack
phishing attack
Trojan
26
In a ________ attack, the victim is redirected to a malicious website.
pharming
click bait
botnet
blagging
27
_________ is where advertisers only pay the owners of a site when a user clicks on an ad.
pay per visit
cost per click
pay per click
28
A social media post to combine a few pieces of information or complete a quiz to produce a name is what kind of malware?
name generator attack
pharming
shouldering
spyware
29
Trojans have become a serious problem with what type of apps?
Android
Amazon
free
Apple