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Flashcards by Joseph Stalin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Joseph Stalin
about 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Why are systems attacked? | |
| Explain why people hack for fun / challenge | Hackers may attack a system for the thrill, adrenaline rush or sense of personal achievement. |
| Explain industrial espionage | Businesses could have their intellectual property, for example designs, business strategies ect. stolen through cyber attacks. |
| Explain why people hack for financial gain | A very simple reason: money. Extorting money from victims of a cyber attack is common due to an increasing number of people using ransomware. |
| Explain personal attack | Some attacks can be personally motivated (most commonly ex-employees holding grudges against their former employees perhaps feeling they were treated unfairly) |
| What is disruption? | Any attack that prevents an organisation from operating normally causes operational chaos, loss of earnings & reputational damage, all of which can have lasting effects. |
| What is data & information theft? | Both have value as something that could be sold to criminal gangs or organisations for financial gain. This is done by stealing customer payment information (debit & credit card details, names, addresses ect.) that is used to purchase goods illegally. Breaches of data and information are a major cause of identity theft. |
| What is phishing? | Phishing is a form of social engineering & a very common form of cyber attack, arriving in a users inbox as a spoof email, pretending to be a legitimate company. The user is typically asked to click a link to visit a website & confirm 'critical information' |
| What is pharming? | Pharming is a cyberattack that uses malware to direct a user to a fake website that requests information. |
| What is a man-in-the-middle attack? | A form of cyberattack where the communication between two devices, for example a user & a web service, is intercepted & possibly tampered with. |
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