Cyber Security: Quiz

What type of malware makes copies of itself and hijacks resources by exploiting vulnerabilities to spread itself across a network?

Worm

Trojan

Virus

Spam

What is the term used for a group of computers controlled by an attacker and used for sending spam emails or instigating a denial-of-service attack?

Zombie

Threatsaurus

Botnet

Morris worm

The AOHell program that, in the 1990s, allowed AOL users to impersonate another user, was an early example of what type of attack?

Virus

Worm

Trojan

Phishing

Which of the following is an example of spoofing?

Placing one’s own address in an email ‘envelope’ with a different address.

Siphoning money from advertisers by hijacking clicks on websites and sending them to another, fraudulent, website.

Including links to malware in personal messages posted in social media websites.

Including malware as an attachment to an email.

What is the term used to describe rules that identify viruses based on previous experience of known viruses?

Signatures

Anti-virus software

Heuristics

Code signing