Cyber Conflicts: Quiz 3 - Cyberwarfare and International Conflicts

This week quiz is also very simple and easy to comprehend and answer. However, if you require any suggestion or help about how to answer do mention in the comment and I will help with that.


1. Since 1999 cyber attacks have caused large-scale injury, loss of life and destruction of property.

• True
• False

2. Identify the item which has NOT been recognized as a mode of cyberwarfare attack and activity.

• Information gathering and espionage
• Disruption of services
• Physical system attacks
• Social media and propaganda
• None of the above

3. The countries who conduct powerful cyber attacks are:

• Russia and China
• China and U.S.
• U.S. and Russia
• All of the above

4. What's the current level of threat of cyber attack of terrorist activity, aka cyber terrorism?

• Cyber terrorism threat has been largely unfounded
• Cyber terrorism threat is somewhat likely
• Cyber terrorism threat is extremely likely and dangerous
• Cyber terrorism often happened in the past but no longer a big issue

5. What's an example of a real event for an activity of non-state actors?

• Citizens in Russia working to attack computers in Estonia
• Bank personel in China using computers to attack Australia
• Groups of thugs in Egypt using cyber attacks on Tunisia
• None of the above

6. There are a defined set of cyber attack characteristics that can clearly identify the different types of actor motivations.

• False
• True

7. A 2009 attack on more than 30 companies including Google and Yahoo stealing intellectual property was attributed to Taiwan. Where were the hackers traced back to?

• Taiwan
• China
• U.S.
• Russia
• Iran

8. ___________ of infrastructure means a failure in one element could cause cascading failures on multiple _____________ infrastructure components.

Choose the BEST set of terms to complete the phrase above:

• interdependence; critical
• association; cyber
• criticality; complex
• internet; cyber
• comparability; internet

9. Techniques for censoring information include the following, except:

• IT blocking
• URL and packet filtering
• Web feed blocking
• DNS filtering

10. __________ are machines connected to the Internet who have been infected by a virus or spyware and may be used by others to cause damage to any computer or networks, including by "denial of service attacks" where multiple __________ can suck up the resources of certain critical computers connected to the Internet.

• Modems, IPs
• Bot nets; bots
• Trojans; viruses
• Computers; spams