Cyberterrorism

Question 1

What is Cyberterrorism?

Answer 1

Cyberterrorism = Unlawful attacks/ threats of attacks against computers, networks and the info stored in them.

Question 2

What are the aims of Cyberterrorism?

Answer 2

• Intimidate or coerce Gov. or its people towards specific political or social objectives

Question 3

What is a Cyber Attack?

Answer 3

• When there is an unauthorised access to system/network by a 3rd party.

Question 4

What are the types of Cyber Terror?

Answer 4

1. Unstructured - (simple).
2. Structured - (advanced).
3. Coordinated - (complex).

Question 5

What is Unstructured cyber terror?

Answer 5

• Basic hacks.
• Against individual systems using tools created by someone else.
• Organisation possesses little target-analysis, command+control and learning capability.

Question 6

What is Structured cyber terror?

Answer 6

• Sophisticated attacks.
• Against multiple system or networks, and possibly to modify or create hacking tools.
• Organisation possesses an elementary target-analysis, command+control and learning capability.

Question 7

What is coordinated cyber terror?

Answer 7

• Coordinated attacks.
• Can cause mass destruction against integrated, heterogenous defences (including Cryptography).
• Organisation possesses highly-capable target-analysis, command+control, and organisational learning capability.

Question 8

What are the types of Hackers?

Answer 8

1. Black Hat Hackers.
2. White Hat Hackers.
3. Grey Hat Hackers.

Question 9

What are Black Hat Hackers?

Answer 9

• Cyber criminals that illegally crack systems with malicious intent.

Question 10

What are White Hat Hackers?

Answer 10

• Ethical security hackers that try to uncover system weaknesses and fix them to strengthen a systems overall security.

Question 11

What are Grey Hat Hackers?

Answer 11

• Uncover weaknesses, don’t exploit them but instead report them but them may demand payment in exchange for providing full details of what they uncovered.

Question 12

What are most common Cyber attacks?

Answer 12

1. Malware.
2. Phishing.
3. Man-in-the-middle.
4. Denial of Service.
5. Watering Hole.

Question 13

What is a Malware cyber attack?

Answer 13

Malicious software viruses (trojans, spyware, adware).

Trojans - Disguises itself as malicious software.
Spyware - Steals confidential data without you knowing.
Adware - Displays advertising content on a user’s screen.

Question 14

What is a Phishing cyber attack?

Answer 14

• Attacker impersonates to be a trusted contact and sends email fake emails with malicious link to allow hacker to gain access to confidential info.

Question 15

What is a Man-in-the-middle cyber attack?

Answer 15

Attacker comes in between 2-party communication (e.g. zoom) and hijacks the session then hacker steals and manipulates data.

Question 16

What is a Denial of Service cyber attack?

Answer 16

Attacker targets systems, networks and floods them with traffic to overwhelm systems and closes/slows websites.

• Threat to businesses as leaves legitimate services requests unattended whilst system is overwhelmed.

Question 17

What is a Watering Hole cyber attack?

Answer 17

Attacker attacks websites that are frequently used by target group and infects these websites with MALWARE which attacks user’s personal info.

• Websites are identified by closely monitoring target or guessing.