Multiple Choice Questions

During a confidential meeting, a government discovers its classified communications have been intercepted and transmitted to a foreign agency.

Hackers coordinated a massive attack on national power systems to cause panic and disrupt economic activity. This act best illustrates _______.

By flooding a company’s web server with millions of fake access requests, attackers make the website inaccessible to real customers. The crime is called a _______.

Hidden code within a legitimate application secretly gives hackers administrator access to a user’s system. This is an example of a _______.

Multiple infected computers worldwide are remotely commanded to attack a government website at the same time. What kind of attack does this describe?

A university’s entire grading system is compromised due to unpatched vulnerabilities in its old database software. Which preventive measure could have avoided this?

A university’s entire grading system is compromised due to unpatched vulnerabilities in its old database software. Which preventive measure could have avoided this?

Instead of technical hacking, a con artist persuades employees to reveal passwords by pretending to be IT support. This illustrates which cyber tactic?

Instead of technical hacking, a con artist persuades employees to reveal passwords by pretending to be IT support. This illustrates which cyber tactic?

Attackers modify e-commerce transaction codes so that customer payments are secretly rerouted to their own account. Which cybercrime is illustrated?