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Question 1

Someone who is pretending to be someone to gain trust is

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impersonator

Question 2

When an attacker tries to exploit your email to gain acces creditiditals

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Phishing- email they try and gain information

Question 3

What is it called when the attacker changes the URL?

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Typosquatting, prepend is the beggining being changed

Question 4

When the e-mail lies to yout to exploit emotions to click on the phising email.

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Pre-text

Question 5

when attacker wants to take over a large group in phising

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pharmer

Question 6

when clicking on the email and it takes you to another website that copies everything you type in.

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redirect

Question 7

attack ove rthe voice line it looks like a locoal phone number is calling but its not

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Vishing

Question 8

attacker entice you ckick a link through a text messga

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smishing

Question 9

gather info on victim from social media linked in etc. to make up a pretext

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reconnaissance

Question 10

an attack with inside information to make it more believable

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targeted phishing

Question 11

spear fishing the CEO is also called

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whaling it targets someone like a CFO who has all credited or valuable credentials

Question 12

often seen with vishing attackers will extract information from the victim

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eliciting

Question 13

throwing away mail or any personal information in the trash attackers who do this can find it

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dumpster diving

Question 14

people can look over your shoulder peaking with their eyes to see the information on the screen

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shoulder surfing

Question 15

a threat that doesn’t actually exist, but seem like they could be ex: needing to update software after typing to the wrong URL

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hoaxes

Question 16

infect a third party site to victimize all its visit that visit the site

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watering hole attack

Question 17

layered defense helps what attack firewalls and IPS anti-virus/anti-malware signature updates

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watering hole attack

Question 18

unsolicited messages emails forums can contain phishing attempt

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spam

Question 19

what helps filter spam before it goes to the internal server

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mail gateway

Question 20

checks the ip address and makes sure its trusted if not it blocks the ip addres

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reverse DNS rDNS

Question 21

slows down the mail server to take a lot of time and also slows down their server

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tarpitting

Question 22

blcoks all recipent that are not

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reciepient filerting

Question 23

sway the way people are thinking

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hacking public campaign

Question 24

miltatry using the inteernt to sway

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hybrid warfare

Question 25

when someone follows you inside righ after you walk in the door blending in with the crowd

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tailgating

Question 26

attacker sneds an invoce for products you are using in teh organization

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invoice scams

Question 27

attackers collecting login credentials mayb run a macro that downlaods all crednetials

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credential harvest

Question 28

Malicious software that can gathers keystrokes, controls your computer by third-party and control the whole system.

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Malware think of malicious + software= malware

Question 29

Malware can encrypt your data t/f

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true

Question 30

Malware comes in e-mails, advertisements, webpages to download software t/f

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true

Question 31

malware that can reproduce itself but needs user to click on something

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virus

Question 32

worms can jump from machine to machine with out any human intervention

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True

Question 33

anti-virus will prevent what

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Viruses

Question 34

a type of cirus that is part of an application

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program viru s

Question 35

all you have to do is start the OS and the virus will start

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boot sector

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may act as a script on the OS

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scritp virus

Question 37

a virus that is runnning inside another application

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macor virus

Question 38

a virus that never installs or saves itself as visur son the file stem to avoid being known.

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fileless virus

Question 39

What virus operates in the memory of the computer? Nothing is ever written on the storage drive

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Fileless Virus

Question 40

what virus runs PowerShell scripts

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Fileless scripts

Question 41

what virus connects to local systems or networks and multiply

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worms

Question 42

what virus takes advantage of vulnerability OS or applications

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worms

Question 43

firewalls and or IDS/IPS helps mitigate what virus

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worms they help block the communication

Question 44

installs malware to encrypt data and then wants crypto currency in exchange

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crypto-malware

Question 45

taking away data and required to pay for it back

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ransomware

Question 46

using a back-up, updating your OS,applications and antivirus-anti-malware will help prevnt ransom and cryptoware

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True

Question 47

software that pretends to be something else. doesn't really replicate only ends up installing malware

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Trojan horse

Question 48

overly aggressive browser toolbar

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Potentially unwanted program PUP

Question 49

installs new software for a new way to enter the sytem often placed with malware

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backdoor

Question 50

remote adminstration tool is also called what

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Remote access Trojan RAT

Question 51

RATs conrols a device key logg screen record take screen shots copy files and embed more malware

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true

Question 52

how to prevent agaisnt trojan and rats

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dont run unkown software keep anti-virus and anti-,alwre up to date always have a back up

Question 53

What modifes parts of the kernal aka the foundational buldings blocks of the OS

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Rootkits

Question 54

rootskits can be found on all operating devices

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true

Question 55

what is an example of kernal drivers

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Zeus/Zbot