CYBERSECURITY: SCRIPT KIDDIES

Question 1

What is hacking?

Answer 1

getting access or control of a computer system without permission.

Question 1

What are penetration testers? (Pen testers)

Answer 1

paid to legally hack systems, helping companies find weaknesses in their systems.

Question 2

What are script kiddies?

Answer 2

hackers who use downloaded tools to hack without much technical knowledge.

Question 3

Why might people want to hack?

Answer 3

People would want to hack to steal data, disrupt services, for financial or political gain, for fun, or for ethical reasons

Question 4

What is Denial of service attack? (DoS)

Answer 4

​​Denial of service attack is when a cybercriminal makes a network resource unavailable to users.

Question 5

What is Distributed denial of service attack? (DDoS)

Answer 5

Distributed denial of service attack is the same as DoS except multiple computers make the attack at once.

Question 6

What is botnet attack?

Answer 6

First, the criminal infects your IoT device with malware. Then they send attack orders to your device, which carries out the attack on the target.

Question 7

What is brute force attack?

Answer 7

A brute force attack basically tries multiple times to find something, like a password.