Non-automated cybercrime

Computing

Security

A discipline in social science that refers to efforts to influence particular attitudes and social behaviours on a large scale to produce desired characteristics in a target population

Getting information from people by promising them things

The psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information

Which of the sentences below most accurately represents social engineering in cybersecurity?

The following sentence is a description of which social engineering attack? "Trying to obtain confidential records such as passwords by sending emails that look as if they are from a legitimate, respected organisation, but contain links to fake websites that take data from their unsuspecting victims"

The following sentence is a description of which social engineering attack? "Redirects victims to a bogus site even if the victim has typed the correct web address. This type of scam is often applied to the websites of banks or e-commerce sites."

Any activity designed to protect the usability and integrity of a network and its data by managing access to the network.

Designing programs that are less vulnerable to cyberattack.

Ensuring that all staff are adequately trained to protect an organisation.

The practice of protecting systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks.

Which of these sentences most accurately defines cybersecurity?

An individual who is inexperienced but interested in a career in IT.

An individual who may seek financial reward for finding vulnerabilities but is more interested in finding the vulnerabilities than the reward.

An individual who will violate computer security for malicious or financial reasons, AKA cracker.

An individual whose activities are designed to test and enhance computer security, AKA ethical hacker.

Which of these sentences defines an ethical hacker?

Individuals who don’t care about money.

Individuals who organise mass walkouts and protests.

Individuals who use technology to announce a social, ideological, religious, or political message.

Individuals who will stop at nothing to get their message across.

Which of the sentences below most accurately describes hacktivists?

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