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Information Security Management Examination (SG) | Section A Threats and Attack Techniques 02

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Problem 1 ・ Question 1 / 10

Which malware encrypts files and demands money in exchange for restoring them?

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Ransomware makes data or a device unusable and demands a ransom.

Problem 1 ・ Question 2 / 10

Which malicious program records the keys typed without the user noticing?

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A keylogger records keyboard input and steals credentials and the like.

Problem 1 ・ Question 3 / 10

Which attack lures users from a mail pretending to be from a real company to a fake site and steals their credentials?

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Phishing uses fake mails and fake sites to make people enter secret information.

Problem 1 ・ Question 4 / 10

Which attack targets a particular organisation with mail disguised as relating to its business?

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A targeted attack researches its target and uses content the recipient will readily believe.

Problem 1 ・ Question 5 / 10

Which attack sends huge volumes of traffic from many devices to make a service unusable?

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A DDoS attack is a denial-of-service attack that concentrates traffic from many distributed devices.

Problem 1 ・ Question 6 / 10

Which attack puts malicious commands into a web input field to manipulate a database?

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SQL injection causes malicious SQL to be executed by way of input values.

Problem 1 ・ Question 7 / 10

Which attack exploits a vulnerability for which no fix has yet been released?

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An attack aimed at a vulnerability before countermeasures are in place, such as just after disclosure, is called a zero-day attack.

Problem 1 ・ Question 8 / 10

Which act is searching discarded documents in the rubbish to obtain secret information?

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Trashing is the act of hunting through waste for credentials and confidential information.

Problem 1 ・ Question 9 / 10

Which attack tries candidate passwords one after another over every possible combination?

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A brute-force attack tries combinations of characters exhaustively.

Problem 1 ・ Question 10 / 10

Which threat is an authorised employee taking customer information out improperly?

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Taking information out by an insider who holds legitimate rights counts as insider fraud.