Malware Flashcards
Learn definitions (23 cards)
What is a Virus?
A virus is a program that spreads to other computers and cause harm, such as deleting files or slowing things down.
What is a Trojan Horse?
A trojan horse is a program that looks safe but secretly does bad things to your computer.
What is Ransomware?
Ransomware is a program that locks your files and asks money to unlock them.
What is Spyware?
Spyware is a program that collects your personal information.
What is a Brute Force Attack?
Brute Force Attack is a method of guessing passwords by trying random combinations.
What is DoS?
DoS is an attack from a single bad actor that floods a computer or website with too much traffic, making it stop working.
What is DDoS?
DDoS is a bigger version of a DoS attack, where many computers are used to overload a website of system.
What is Packet Sniffing?
Packet Sniffing is a tool that captures data being sent over a network.
What is a Keylogger?
Keylogger is a program that records what you type, including passwords.
What is Social Engineering?
Social Engineering is a type of cyber-attack that relies on manipulating people into revealing confidential information, performing actions, or bypassing security measures - not by hacking into systems but by exploiting human psychology.
Password Security rules.
- At least 1 uppercase letter
- At least 1 lowercase letter
- At least 1 number
- At least 1 special character
- At least 8 characters long
- Change regularly
- No consecutive letters are numbers
- No name, date of birth, same passwords as used elsewhere
What does DoS stand for?
Denial of Service
What does DDoS stand for?
Distributed Denial of Service
What is Phishing?
Phishing are fake emails or message tricking clicks.
Defence tip for Phishing.
Check sender email address.
What is Smishing?
Smishing is Phishing via SMS/test messages.
Defence tip for Smishing.
Never click SMS links.
What is Vishing?
Vishing is a fake phone call that tricks you into giving away personal information or money.
Defence tip for Vishing.
Hang up and call official numbers.
What is Pharming?
Pharming redirects you to fake websites.
Defence tip for Pharming.
Look for https:// and padlock.
What is Shoulder Surfing?
Shoulder Surfing is watching someone over their shoulder to steal information, like passwords.
Defence tip for Shoulder Surfing.
Use privacy screens
