Phishing - ANSWER A type of social engineering attack often used to steal user data, including login credentials and credit card numbers.
Smishing - ANSWER The act of committing text message fraud to try to lure victi
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Phishing - ANSWER A type of social engineering attack often used to steal user data, including login credentials and credit card numbers.
Smishing - ANSWER The act of committing text message fraud to try to lure victims into revealing account information or installing malware.
Vishing - ANSWER An electronic fraud tactic in which individuals are tricked into revealing critical financial or personal information to unauthorized entities.
Spam - ANSWER An unsolicited bulk message sent to multiple recipients who did not ask for them.
Spam over instant messaging (SPIM) - ANSWER Refers to unsolicited instant messages.
Spear phishing - ANSWER An email or electronic communications scam targeted towards a specific individual, organization or business.
Dumpster diving - ANSWER A technique used to retrieve information that could be used to carry out an attack on a computer network.
Shoulder surfing - ANSWER A direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone's shoulder, to get information.
Pharming - ANSWER A form of online fraud involving malicious code and fraudulent websites.
Tailgating - ANSWER A physical security breach in which an unauthorized person follows an authorized individual to enter a secured premise.
Eliciting information - ANSWER A reporting format designed to elicit as much information as possible about individuals involved in a group or network.
Whaling - ANSWER A method used by cybercriminals to masquerade as a senior player at an organization and directly target senior individuals, with the aim of stealing or gaining access to their computer systems for criminal purposes.
Prepending - ANSWER A technique used to deprioritize a route in a netork.
Identity fraud - ANSWER A crime in which an imposter obtains key pieces of personally identifiable information (PII) to impersonate someone else.
Invoice scams - ANSWER A fraudulent way of receiving money or by prompting a victim to put their credentials into a fake login screen.
Credential harvesting - ANSWER The process of gathering valid usernames, passwords, private emails, and email addresses through infrastructure breaches.
Reconnaissance - ANSWER A term for testing for potential vulnerabilities in a computer network.
Hoax - ANSWER A message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus threat.
Impersonation - ANSWER A form of fraud in which attackers pose as a known or trusted person to dupe an employee into transferring money to a fraudulent account, sharing sensitive information or revealing login credentials.
Watering hole attack - ANSWER A targeted attack designed to compromise users within a specific industry by infecting websites they typically visit and luring them to a malicious site.
Typosquatting - ANSWER A form of cybersquatting which relies on mistakes such as typos made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser.
Pretexting - ANSWER A form of social engineering in which an individual lies to obtain privileged data.
Social media - ANSWER A computer-based technology that allows the sharing of ideas, thoughts, and information through the building of virtual networks.
Authority - ANSWER The power to enforce rules or give orders.
Consensus - ANSWER Allows anyone in the network to join dynamically and participate without prior permission.
Ransomware - ANSWER A malicious software that infects your computer and displays messages demanding a fee to be paid in order for your system to work again.
Trojans - ANSWER A type of malware that is often disguised as legitimate software.
Worms Potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) - ANSWER A program that may be unwanted, despite the possibility that users consented to download it
Fileless virus - ANSWER A type of malicious software that uses legitimate programs to infect a computer.
Command and Control - ANSWER A computer controlled by a cybercriminal to send commands to systems compromised by malware and receive stolen data from a target network.
Bots - ANSWER A network of computers infected by malware that are under the control of a single attacking party, known as the "bot-herder."
Cryptomalware - ANSWER A type of ransomware that encrypts user's files, and demands ransom.
Logic bomb - ANSWER A string of malicious code used to cause harm to a network when the programmed conditions are met.
Spyware - ANSWER A type of malware that collects and shares information about a computer or network without the user's consent.
Keyloggers - ANSWER A type of monitoring software designed to record keystrokes made by a user.
Remote access Trojan (RAT) - ANSWER A malware program that allows hackers to assume remote control over a device via covert surveillance.
Rootkit - ANSWER Asoftware used by a hacker to gain constant administrator-level access to a computer or network.
Backdoor - ANSWER A means to access a computer system or encrypted data that bypasses the system's customary security.
Brute force - ANSWER A brute-force technique where attackers run through common words and phrases, such as those from a dictionary, to guess passwords.
Rainbow table - ANSWER A listing of all possible plaintext permutations of encrypted passwords specific to a given hash algorithm.
Plaintext - ANSWER A message before encryption or after decryption.
Card cloning - ANSWER The practice of making an unauthorized copy of a credit card.
Skimming - ANSWER Cybercriminals' strategies for capturing and stealing cardholder's personal payment information.
Supply-chain attacks - ANSWER A cyber-attack that seeks to damage an organization by targeting less-secure elements in the supply chain.
Birthday - ANSWER A type of cryptographic attack, which exploits the mathematics behind the birthday problem in probability theory.
Collision Attack - ANSWER An attack on a cryptographic hash to find two inputs producing the same hash value, i.e. a hash collision.
Downgrade - ANSWER A form of cyber attack in which an attacker forces a network channel to switch to an unprotected or less secure data transmission standard.
Privilege escalation - ANSWER A type of network intrusion that takes advantage of programming errors or design flaws to grant the attacker an access to the network.
Cross-site scripting - ANSWER A web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to compromise the interactions that users have with a vulnerable application.
Structured query language (SQL) - ANSWER A programming language designed to get information out of and put it into a relational database.
Dynamic-link library (DLL) - ANSWER A collection of small programs that can be loaded when needed by larger programs and used at the same time.
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) - ANSWER A software protocol for
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