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Computing

You and your data

Social engineering

Script kiddies

Rise of the bots

Under attack

Cybersecurity

A firewall checks incoming and outgoing network traffic

Which of the following would be the most appropriate software to identify when you system becomes infected with worms, spyware and other forms of computer viruses?

Which of the following is a method of verifying that a login attempt has been made by the account owner?

Which of the following attempts to check if you are a human user and not a malicious bot.

Which of the following would be the correct term for a large collection of malware-infected devices (zombies) used to perform an attack or to exploit known weaknesses in a system?

Which of the following two are types of malware?

Malicious software that disguises itself as something else

Malicious software that monitors every keystroke the user makes

Malicious software that uses network bandwidth to deliberately disrupt the speed of the network

What is the definition of a computer virus?

Attaches to files and is designed to take up system resources to slow down the network or computer. Does not self replicate.

Self replicates and encrypts files to make them inaccessible

Self replicates, does not attach to files, but is designed to take up system resources to slow down the network or computer

Which of the following statements best describes a "worm"?

The Wannacry virus was an example of which type of attack?

Finding new websites for search engines to index

Which one of the following wouldn't an internet bot perform?

This lesson will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.