Section 4

Question 1

What is known as an umbrella term?

Answer 1

Malware

Question 2

What part of malware is illegal?

Answer 2

Using the Malware

Question 3

Is making malware illegal?

Answer 3

no

Question 4

Is having malware illegal?

Answer 4

no

Question 5

Is using malware illegal?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Who would be free to create malware but if you put it on someone else’s system it becomes illegal?

Answer 6

White Hat Hacker

Question 7

You can create malware and use it on your own system. True or False

Answer 7

True

Question 8

6.549 variants of what?

Answer 8

malware

Question 9

One of the largest malware researchers in the world?

Answer 9

Symantec

Question 10

Different kinds of malware:
1.
2.
3.

Answer 10

1. viruses
2. trojans
3. worms

Question 11

A virus is a type of malware. True or False

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Do viruses need human interaction to spread?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Open email, click on link, download a file all need human interaction and allow what to spread?

Answer 13

Viruses

Question 14

There are numerous possible outcomes with viruses. True or False

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Floppy discs and hard drive all have what?

Answer 15

Boot Sector

Question 16

Viruses are designed specifically for what? The virus activates itself as part of the system.

Answer 16

Boot Sectors

Question 17

Elk Cloner is a what?

Answer 17

Boot Sector Virus

Question 18

Decided to prank his friends where it would attach itself to a floppy disk and spread from there. The “50th” time you accessed the disk there would be a poem and it spread out of control. Because it was in the boot sector it became very difficult to get rid of.

Answer 18

Elk Cloner

Question 19

Microsoft office suite has its own macro functions, and you can create viruses specifically designed to spread using the macro functions.

Answer 19

Macro Viruses

Question 20

Different viruses have different goals (annoying, destroy data, steal data, etc.) True or False

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Hides within something?

Answer 21

Trojans

Question 22

Program that records the buttons that are hit on a keyboard and either stores them for later retrieval or sends them to the bad guys.

Answer 22

keyloggers

Question 23

Webcams, microphones. You accidentally get a trojan on your laptop they may have access to the camera and microphone. Big tech people recently were filmed and interviewed at his desk and his laptop and had post it notes on his camera to keep people from seeing everything.

Answer 23

File/ Peripheral Access

Question 24

Infect people and make them be your what?

Answer 24

Proxy

Question 25

When police get mad at you for doing something, they will actually get mad at the people who I infected. True or False

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Payloads can be many different things and one example is a key logger. True or False

Answer 26

True

Question 27

Digital pirate and want to download a cracked copy of a video game and someone had hidden a trojan in it. True or False

Answer 27

True

Question 28

Do worms need human interaction?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

What spreads VERY quickly and their lifetime is only hours?

Answer 29

Worms

Question 30

In 1988 who accidentally launched a worm and took down a significant portion of the internet.

Answer 30

Morris worm

Question 31

What resulted in the first CERT?

Answer 31

Morris Worm

Question 32

CERT stands for what?

Answer 32

Computer Emergency Response Team

Question 33

Who are teams that are specifically designed to fix problems or diagnose issues? If anyone has a major cyber event they will come out and try to figure out what went wrong and make sure it never happens again.

Answer 33

CERT

Question 34

You just launch them and they go. They can only have a few hours because of how fast they spread.

Answer 34

Worms

Question 35

A kind of virus/trojan and you get a piece of malware on your computer and it allows someone else to control your machine.

Answer 35

Botnet

Question 36

A Bot Master will send out a bot virus and it gets infected on your computer and the more it infects the larger it grows. True or False

Answer 36

True

Question 37

The larger botnet on record was how many computers?

Answer 37

A few million

Question 38

The botnet virus sits quietly on your machine and contacts a server somewhere and it listens and waits. If the master wants to do something he can send or post a command on the server and all the bots do whatever the command is. True or False

Answer 38

True

Question 39

One of the more common uses of botnet is what?

Answer 39

Distributed Denial of Service Attack

Question 40

If I get upset at PayPal if I have a few thousand bots at my command to send amazon junk data or invalid requests or anything that occupies the PayPal servers so much that they don't have the resources to deal with the traffic. The best scenario for the bad guy is that the server shuts down. The best case for the service is that their service runs even if just slow. True or False

Answer 40

True

Question 41

Child pron installing of keeping them on your own computer you can keep them stored on the other peoples computer. To access them you would get on the botnet to look at them. This is using what?

Answer 41

Hidden Files

Question 42

Spam creators will use a botnet to send spam. True or False

Answer 42

True

Question 43

Spam: If there are 10,000 computers at their command, they will keep sending them and no one can block them. True or False

Answer 43

True

Question 44

Describes all the other stuff connected to the internet. Air conditioning, refrigerators, doorbells. All kins of things connected to the internet that is not computer or phones. Someone has created a botnet and doing an attack.

Answer 44

Internet of things

Question 45

People who create internet of things are not thinking about what?

Answer 45

Security

Question 46

Now there are more devices connected to the internet than their are on the earth.

Answer 46

True

Question 47

Download a program accidentally, usually through a trojan or a bad link. It encrypts your hard drive and displays an image that they are the police and they demand payment through bitcoin or another harder to trace payment. You can format and reinstall your hard drive or lose everything encrypted. You can pay the money and they may or may not fix your computer.

Answer 47

Ransomeware

Question 48

70% of businesses pay, 20% over 40k. True or False

Answer 48

True

Question 49

Ransomeware has become a money maker for these people. It is one of the reasons why a backup is important.

Answer 49

True

Question 50

You should have on site and off site back ups. True or False

Answer 50

True

Question 51

A lot of these overlap. It might be a trojan that delivers ransomware. One infected email, one bad link on a website that may have a piece of malware that falls into multiple categories. True or False

Answer 51

True