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1
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Rules or manners for interacting courteously with others online (such as not typing a message in all capital letters, which is equivalent to shouting).

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Netiquette

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PII is any information specific to an individual.

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Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

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Willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text, typically through e-mails or on websites (e.g., blogs, social networking sites).

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Cyberbullies/cyberbullying

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Methods individuals use to track, lure, or harass another person online.

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Cyberstalking

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Web sites on the worldwide web with hazard conditions to cyber safety.

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Risk Sites

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An electronic mail message sent from one computer or mobile device to another computer or mobile device.

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Electronic mail (e-mail)

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A secret word or number that must be used to gain access to an online service or to modify software, such as a parental control.

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Password

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The process of protecting a system and network against unintended or malicious changes or deletion of information

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Cybersecurity

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The study of ethics pertaining to computers, covering we use them how we use them; this can affect individuals and society.

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Cyber Ethics

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The act of circumventing or breaking past security boundaries.

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Hacking

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A person who engages in hacking

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Hacker

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ethical and law-abiding

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White-hat hacker

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operates outside the law

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Black-hat hacker

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The avenue or path hacker uses to commit the attack.

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Attack vector

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A malicious software code that is unleashed and attempts to perform its destructive content.

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Virus

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A attempt to steal, damage, or destroy data or computer system.

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Cyberattack

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Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Are the three underlying principles of data protection.

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CIA triad

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The condition of being private or secret

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Confidentiality

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Having important information in the state of being complete or uncorrupted

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Integrity

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Having access to information when you need it is known as

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Availability

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This term refers to the weakness of an Asset that can be Exploited by one or more attackers

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Vulnerability

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Any event that has the potential to bring harm to an organization or individual.

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Threat

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The potential or loss or damage when a threat exploits a vulnerability

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Risk

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A computer code intentionally written to cause some form of harm.

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Malware

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fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication

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Phishing

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a third party trying to gain access to your systems by cracking a user’s password.

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Password Attack

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A cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to the Internet.

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Denial-of-Service Attack (DDoS)

28
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a type of malware from cryptovirology that threatens to publish the victim’s data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid.

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Ransomware

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What do we do with Ransomware?

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We don’t pay because the hacker may not give you the info you need to get your file back and may try to force you to pay more money.

30
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Name 1 – 2 types of a cyber attack?

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DDOS, Virus, Phishing

31
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This type of Password Attack has a third party trying to guess your password.

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Brute Force Password Attack

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Examples of Confidentiality attacks

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Hacking Encrypted Data, Man in the middle attacks

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Examples of Integrity attacks

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Remotely controlling zombie system, Maliciously accessing servers and forging records

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Examples of Availability attacks

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DOS/DDoS Attacks, Flooding a server with too many requests

35
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These two are a list common things you should NEVER do online.

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share your password, Posting anything online that you do not want public

36
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What are the three key Goals of Security Measures in Cyber Security?

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Prevent ,Detect, and Recover from a problem.

37
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Personal Skills used to communicate and work well with others is known as what?

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Soft Skills

38
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In a few words define what is Risk sites?

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Web sites on the worldwide web with hazard conditions to cyber/online safety

39
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True or False: The Purpose of Malware is found in its payload.

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True

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Keylogger

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Technology that tracks a user’s keystrokes on the keyboard

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Social Engineering

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To Trick Someone into doing actions or giving up confidential information to hackers/people.

42
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Cookies

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Small files saved on the computer for web browser and websites.

43
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True or False: Trusted Sites Create Cookie Policy that States if the site uses them and how they are being used.

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True

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Trojan Horse

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Malware hidden inside other Software that appears harmless.

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True or False: Remote Access Trojan is a malware that allows the hacker to embed a backdoor to gain administrative control over someone computer.

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False

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Compliance

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Following the rules or standards that has been established.

47
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Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)

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Deals with unauthorized access of computers.

48
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Electronic Communication and Privacy Act (ECPA)

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Protects wire and electronic transmissions of data.

49
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

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Prevents company executives from hiding or destorying electronic records from a minimum of five years.

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Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)

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Ensures that financial businesses are protecting your private data.

51
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Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act (HIPAA)

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Protects Electronic Medical Records and Personal Health Information.

52
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Which of the following below are key sign to watch out for when dealing with Phishing.
Select all that apply

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Spoofed Email Address, All Caps, Asking your for your PII

53
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What is the name of the Programing Language We use on replit.com?

A

Python

54
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True or False: 50% of websites online are safe.

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False No place is 100% safe online.

55
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Dumpster Diving

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One who goes digging through trash for useful information.

56
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Encryption

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Data protection technique that includes changing information from its original form to disguised or encoded format

57
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Cipher

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A tool used to change normal text into something that is unreadable and then turn back into readable text.

58
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Plaintext

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Refers to any text that can be read or written.

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Ciphertext

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Encoded message

60
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Virtual Machine

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Runs a Actual operating system of physical computer.

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