History of CyberSecurity

Question 1

What is a Computer Virus?

Answer 1

A malicious code written to interfere with computer operations and cause damage to data and software.

Question 2

What year did the Alfie brothers create the BRAIN virus?

Answer 2

1986

Question 3

____ tracked illegal copies of medical software and prevented pirated licenses.

Answer 3

Brain Virus

Question 4

In 1988, who created the Morris Virus to asses the size of the internet?

Answer 4

Robert Morris

Question 5

This program installed itself onto other’s pc’s to tally up the #’s of pc’s connected to the internet and the program kept re-installing itself until pc’s ran out of memory and crashed

Answer 5

Morris Virus

Question 6

What were the 2 notable attacks that happened on the internet?

Answer 6

Equinox Breach and Love Letter Attack

Question 7

Which attack had malware created in order to steal login credentials?

Answer 7

Love Letter

Question 8

In 2017, attackers successfully gained access to one of the largest known data breaches of sensitive info. Over 143 million customers records were stolen.

Answer 8

Equinox Breach

Question 9

What is the use of digital communications to trick people into revealing sensitive data or deploying malicious software?

Answer 9

Phishing

Question 10

5 common Phishing attacks are…

Answer 10

Business Email Compromise, Spear, Whaling, Smishing, Vishing

Question 11

Business Email Compromise (BEC) means?

Answer 11

A T.A. sends an email to be from a known source, making it seemingly legit request to gain financial advantage.

Question 12

What is Whaling?

Answer 12

To target executives to gain access to sensitive data

Question 13

What is Spear Phishing?

Answer 13

A malicious email attack that targets a specific user or group of users. The e-mail then seems from a trusted source.

Question 14

What is Smishing?

Answer 14

Use of texting to trick users to gain sensitive info.

Question 15

Vishing

Answer 15

Exploitation of electronic voice communication to gain sensitive information.

Question 16

What is Malware?

Answer 16

To obtain money such as advantage to be used against someone, an organization, or territory.

Question 17

Common types of Malware (4)

Answer 17

Ransomware, Spyware, Viruses, and Worms

Question 18

What is Spyware?

Answer 18

Malware that is used to gather and sell info without consent. Allows T.A. to collect personal data, private e-mails, texts, voice and images recordings, and locations.

Question 19

What is Ransomware?

Answer 19

A malicious attack where T.A. ecrypt an organization’s data and demands payment.

Question 20

What is Worms?

Answer 20

Malware that can duplicate and spread itself across systems on its own. A WORM DOES NOT NEED DOWNLOADING! It self replicates and spreads from other infected devices!!

Question 21

What is a virus?

Answer 21

A code written to interfere with a pc operations and causes damage to data and software. The virus hides itself in other files in the now infected system.