Why Small Businesses are Easy Targets for Hackers

Question 1

Inbound

Answer 1

adjective

Coming from outside

_{The government has stopped all inbound travelers.}

_{We have halted all inbound flights.}

Question 2

Cyber Threats

Answer 2

noun

The possibility of an attempt to damage a computer network

_{We have seen a rise in cyber threats lately.}

_{There are many cyber threats against Ukrainian banks.}

Question 3

Scan

Answer 3

verb

Looking through something carefully or quickly

_{We scanned the results and came up with this graph.}

_{I quickly scanned through the article.}

Question 4

Vulnerabilities

Answer 4

noun

Things that can easily be attacked

_{The IT team has tracked down several vulnerabilities in the system.}

_{There are many vulnerabilities in the Windows OS.}

Question 5

Spoofing

Answer 5

noun

A cyber attack in which a program / person successfully identifies as another

_{We have had many spoofing attacks before.}

_{Spoofing is hard to eliminate.}

Question 6

Succumb to …

Answer 6

phrasal verb

Fail to resist

_{She succumbed to his charming personality.}

_{Our system succumbed to a recent attack.}

Question 7

Clickjacking

Answer 7

noun

A technique of tricking a user into clicking on something malicious

_{They all received an email that had some clickjacking links.}

_{Clickjacking is an easy way to insert a virus on a system.}

Question 8

Masquerade

Answer 8

verb

To pretend to be someone / something else

_{The CIA trains its recruits to masquerade as normal citizens.}

_{Many unqualified people masquerade as experts.}

Question 9

Benign

Answer 9

adjective

Not harmful

_{It seems that this attack was actually quite benign.}

_{Luckily his mother-in-law is benign.}

Question 10

Malicious

Answer 10

adjective

Something intended to be harmful

_{We found some malicious software on his laptop.}

_{His words were very malicious.}

Question 11

Phishing attack

Answer 11

noun

A type of cyber attack where a fake website is often used to make the user reveal private information

_{We are training our staff how to identify phishing attacks.}

_{Outbound links on YouTube warn against phishing attacks.}

Question 12

Mechanism

Answer 12

noun

A way of doing something that is part of a system

_{We have many mechanisms in place to observe their behavior.}

_{Their mechanism for collecting tax is simple enough.}

Question 13

Sensitive / vulnerable data

Answer 13

adjectives - noun

Information that one does not want to disclose

_{There were a lot of sensitive data on the memory stick he lost.}

_{Some vulnerable data were included in the attachment.}

Question 14

Fend off an attack

Answer 14

phrasal verb - noun

To block an attack

_{We are able to fend off many attacks.}

_{They fended off several malicious attacks.}

Question 15

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