Cyber Security
Internet and Its Uses · 3 question types
Exam Frequency Analysis
Past paper frequency (2018 to 2024)
This topic accounts for approximately 8% of your exam marks.
Threats (phishing, pharming, malware, DDoS, brute-force) and the matching protection methods appear in almost every paper.
redirects a user to a fake website without their knowledge, even when they type the correct address, so that their entered details can be stolen.
The attacker installs malicious code on the user's computer or alters records on a DNS server so that the real web address resolves to the attacker's fake site instead. The fake site is made to look like the genuine one, so the user enters their login details or card numbers and unknowingly hands them to the attacker. The user does nothing wrong: they typed the right address, but the request was redirected behind the scenes.
