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Flashcards by Aimee Morley, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Aimee Morley
almost 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is social engineering? | Social engineering is the art of manipulating people so they give up confidential information. |
| What do people try to get from social engineering? | They try to get your passwords, bank information or try to access your computer so that they can install malicious software that gives them access to all your private details, such as passwords. |
| What is penetration testing? | Penetration testing is an authorized stimulated attack on a computer system performed to evaluate the security of the system. |
| What is a denial of service attack? | In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. |
| What is the point of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack? | Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks typically flood servers, systems or networks with traffic in order to overwhelm the victim resources and make it difficult or impossible for legitimate users to use them. |
| What is a user access levels? | Access levels describe which URIs on the machine a group of users is permitted to read or modify. |
| What is a cipher? | A cipher is a method of hiding words or text with encryption by replacing original letters with other letters, numbers and symbols through substitution or transposition. A combination of substitution and transposition is also often employed. |
| How do you work out a Caesar cipher? | It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is 'shifted' a certain number of places down the alphabet. For example, with a shift of 1, A would be replaced by B, B would become C, and so on. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ XYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW |
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