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Quiz: Common cybersecurity attacks

1. Which of the following is not a type of threat

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A

Phishing

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B

Subscribing to an antivirus software

C

Worms

D

DNS Spoofing

2. You receive an email claiming to be a bank teller asking you to click on a suspicious link. What kind of threat is this?

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A

Phishing

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B

Trojan horse

C

Worms

D

DNS Spoofing

3. Which of the following ensures that your computer is safe from attacks?

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A

Firewall

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B

Microsoft 365

C

Onedrive

D

Windows Task Manager

4. Which of the following is an example of ransomware

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A

Someone sends you an email with a suspicious link which steals your login details

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B

A hacker hacks your work computer and encrypts all the files. The hacker then demands a payment of $20,000 to decrypt your files

C

An attacker attempts to make a network unstable by flooding the network

D

An attacker eavesdrops on data sent back and forth between two users to facilitate a breach

5. Which of the following describes a virus?

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A

Flooding a network to make it unstable or inaccessible to users

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B

A malicious link which brings you to a website which asks for your login details

C

Your account being hacked due to the usage of a weak password

D

A malicious code designed to affect a computer system negatively and designed to copy and paste itself without the user’s knowledge

6. Which of the following describes a malicious code that monitors your computer activity secretly?

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A

Worms

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B

Phishing

C

Spyware

D

Ransomware

7. You have not experienced any loss of access or visible damage to your computer or operating software. This means that you have not been attacked yet and that you are safe.

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True

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B

False

8. Which of the following describes a trojan horse?

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A malicious code that encrypts your files and only releases the files after paying a certain amount of money

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B

A malware that looks like useful software but does something to affect your computer negatively instead

C

A hacker hacking your computer using information from eavesdropping on data sent between two users

D

A malicious link which attempts to steal your login information

9. Which of the following describes a Distributed Denial of Service attack

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A

A malicious code that encrypts your files and only releases the files after paying a certain amount of money

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B

A hacker hacking your computer using information from eavesdropping on data sent between two users

C

Flooding a network to make it unstable and inaccessible to users

D

A malicious link which attempts to steal your login information

10. What is a Man-in-the-middle attack?

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A

When important data is intercepted by an attacker interjecting themselves in the communication process

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B

A type of trojan horse attack

C

A phishing attack

D

An attack where malicious code encrypts all of the files in your system