SE and Hacking Flashcards
What is a virus?
Hides within another program and is only executed when the host program is executed. When executed creates copies of other files and executes it’s malicious payload. Viruses spread via email. Requires a user
What is a worm?
Standalone program that self replicates. Consume bandwidth and overload webservers. Doesn’t need a user
What is a trojan?
Installed by pretending to be a legitimate software. Once installed executes its own malicious payload
What is social engineering?
Malware attacks a system and relies on technical weakness
What is the weakest part of a system?
The user
What is phishing?
An email is sent from an organisation
What are the attributes of phishing?
- A sense of urgency
- Poor spelling and grammar
- are impersonal - don’t include your name
- have a link that is wrong
What is pretexting?
Similar to phishing but is sent to your phone, a message is sent pretending to be from an organisation
What is shouldering?
Looking over someones shoulder
What is a payload?
Malicious parts of the software that do things that the user did not intend them to do
What do malicious payloads do?
- Deleting or damaging data
- Providing entry for hackers
- Try to make a computer part of a botnet
- Stealing data
What is ransomware?
A type of payload that encrypts the data of a user and asks for a fee to decrypt it
What is spyware?
A type of payload that spy’s on the user
What is pharming?
A type of payload that redirects a user that clicked on a link to a different website
What are the different types of threats?
- Pharming
- Spyware
- Ransomeware
- Shouldering
- Pretexting
- Phishing
- Trojan
- Worm
- Virus
- Brute force attacks
- DDOS
- Packet Sniffing
- Man in the middle
- SQL injection
