Unit 5B: Cyberthreats

Question 1

Script Kiddies

Answer 1

teenagers that use software for break-ins

Question 2

Malicious Hackers

Answer 2

hack with malicious intentions

Question 3

Hacktivists

Answer 3

hack to spread message about a cause

Question 4

Black-Hat hackers

Answer 4

hack to steal or destroy for illegal profit

Question 5

Benign hackers

Answer 5

hack for the thrill

Question 6

Benevolant Hackers

Answer 6

hack with owner’s knowledge to find weak points in security

Question 7

Denial of Service Attack

Answer 7

overloads programs so it denies access to users

Question 8

Worms

Answer 8

program that repeatedly copies itself on computer

Question 9

Rootkits

Answer 9

Root: account for system administration
Kit: malware secretly introduced to computer
Rootkit: gives attacker “supperpowers” over computer

Question 10

Blended Threat

Answer 10

mix of everything

Question 11

Zombies

Answer 11

takes control of multiple computers at once, ability to update and introduce new malware
infected computers = zombies

Question 12

Ransomeware

Answer 12

holds computer data hostage until ransom is paid

Question 13

Time, Logic and Email Bomb

Answer 13

Time - at given time
Logic - after given event occurs
Email - subscribes email address to everything to overload it

Question 14

Phone Malware

Answer 14

phone to phone, file from internet

Question 15

Botnet (Robot Network)

Answer 15

network of computers which have been implanted with instructions to wait for commands from person controlling the botnet

Question 16

Thieves

Answer 16

may be company employees, suppliers or professionals

Question 17

Cyberterrorists

Answer 17

attack computer systems to bring physical, political or financial harm to groups, companies or nations

Question 18

Malware

Answer 18

“malicious software”, any kind of computer software with malicious intent