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Information Security Flashcards

1
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Motivation of bad guys

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Account theft and illegal funds transfer
Stealing personal OR financial data
Compromising computing or financial data
Extortion
Intellectual property theft
Espionage
Cyberwarfare
Terrorism
Pranksters
Hacktivism
Revenge
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Data harvesters

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infiltrate systems and collect data for illegal resale

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Cash-out fraudsters

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purchase data from data harvester and use stollen credit card data for illegal actions

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Botnets OR zombie computers

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Networks infiltrated and compromised machines controlled by central command and used for nefarious activities

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5
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Hacktivists

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protesters seeking to make political point by leveraging tech tools

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6
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White hat hacker

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Good guys

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Black hat hacker

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Bad guys

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8
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Social engineering

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Tricking employees into revealing info without computers

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Phishing

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Tricking someone to install malicious software

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spoofed email adress

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altered to seem as if it came from another source

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Zero-day exploits

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Attacks that are so new they have not been clearly identified

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Multi-factor authentication

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Identity proven by presenting more than one item for proof credentials

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Malware

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Seeks to compromise a computing system without permission.

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14
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Methods of infection

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Viruses
Worms
Trojand

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15
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Viruses

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Programs that infect software OR file

Require executable

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16
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Worms

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Automatically spread

Do not require an executable

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17
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Trojans

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Masquerading as something else

Leading user to download and install

18
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Goals of malware

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Botnets or zombie networks
Malicious adware
Spyware
Keylogger
Screen capture
Card skimmer
RAM scraping
Ransomware
Blended threats
19
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Malicious adware

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programs installed without consent and later serve unwanted ads

20
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Spyware

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Software that monitors the users actions, networks traffic, or scans for files

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Keylogger

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records user keystrokes

22
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Screen capturer

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Captures the pixels

23
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Card skimmer

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Captures the data from a swipe cards magnetic strip

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RAM scraping

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Malicious code that scans computing memory for sensitive data

25
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Ransomware

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Encrypts users file and demands payment

26
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Blended threats

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Combination multiple hacking exploits

27
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Push-button hacking

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Hacking toolkits bought online

Hackers can just push button to launch attack

28
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Dumpster driving

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Go through trash to find valuable data and insights to launch attack

29
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Shoulder surfing

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Gaining info through observation

30
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Brute-force attack

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Trying all possible password combinations in order to break in

31
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Virtual private network (VPN)

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scrambles data passed across network

32
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Open-source software

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Allows firms to use free, reliable software

Vulnerabilities in open-source software

33
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Taking action as a user

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1.Surfing smart: Think before you klick
2.Staying vigilant
3.Stay updated: Turn on software update features
4 Stay armed: Install a full suite of security software
5 Be setting smart: Encrypt hard drives
6 Be password savvy: Change the default password and update regularly
7 Be disposal smart: Shred personal docs and destroy media with sensitive info
8 Back up: Avoid loss after hardware failure
9 Check with your administrator

34
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International Organisation Standards

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Provides several frameworks for implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving Information Security Management Systems

35
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Potential losses

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Theft
System manages
Data loss
Disclosure of proprietary info
Recovery
Downtime
Stock price decline
Legal fees
Penalties
Damages of reputation
36
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Firewalls

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Used to examine traffic as it enters and leaves the network

Blocks certain types of access

37
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Intrusion detection system

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Look for unauthorised behaviour
Sounding alarm
Take action

38
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Honeypots

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Tempting to draw hacking attempts

39
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Blacklist

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Deny the entry of specific IP dresses, products, Internet domains and other communication restriction for bad guys

40
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Whitelist

A

More restrictive

Only permit communication with approved entities or in an approved manner

41
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Information security

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Complex
Constantly changing
Critical important

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