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cyber attack
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- 1name some forms of cyber attackplanting viruses
acquiring / using personal or confidential data
disrupting a website or service - 2what do cyber attacks take advantage ofhuman weakness or gullibility
technical weaknesses in computer systems, networks or digital devices - 3what are two common techniques for cyber attacksPhishing and shoulder surfing
- 4what is phishinga phishing email is one that tricks you into handing over sensitive or personal information
- 5describe phishingyou receive what looks like a legitimate email like from a bank or organisation
the email urges you to visit a fake website and enter you information - 6what should you look for if you thik an email is fakethe phishers do not know your name
the senders address is not usually the genuine email
the requests personal information
they make it a sense of urgency - 7how can you protect your self from a phishing emailyou can use a SPAM filter
if you are not 100% certain it's genuine do not click any links - 8what is shoulder surfingshoulder surfing involve the criminal looking at what you are typing in and remembering it
- 9what is a brute force attackA brute force if where the hacker will go through a list of different passwords until they find the right one
Or they might just go through every combination until they get the correct password - 10what are some basic rules of setting a secure passwordbetween 10 - 15 characters a mixture of numbers, lower and uppercase characters and symbols
- 11what main three technical weaknesses are can leave a system vulneralemalware
denial of service (DoS) attacks
data interception and theft - 12what is a computer virusit is a malware which is installed without you knowledge, with the purpose of doing harm
- 13what are the three main ways systems become infectedUSB devices
digital devices
eavesdropping
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