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You answered 8 of 10 questions correctly.

ee elow how our reult compare with the 1,055 randoml ampled adult that took part in our national urve and
review how ou reponded to each quetion. For more finding from the urve, read "What the Pulic Know Aout
Cerecurit." (http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/03/22/what-the-pulic-know-aout-cerecurit/)

You scored better than 91% of the public, below 4% of the public
and the same as 5%.
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Your responses and demographic breakdowns

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What doe the “http://” at the
eginning of a URL denote, a ncrpting information entered into a
oppoed to "http://" (without the weite make it far more difficult for anone
Correctl: 75% 
“”)?  other than the uer and weite owner to
Incorrectl: 8% 
  read the information. A of Feruar 2017,
Not ure: 17%
You correctl anwered That around half of all internet traffic i now
information entered into the site encrpted.
is encrypted

Which of the following i an Phihing attack attempt to get a uer to
example of a “phihing” attack?  Correctl: 73%  click on a maliciou link or file 
  Incorrectl: 7%  imperonating a truted ource the uer i
You correctl anwered All of the Not ure: 20% familiar with. All three of the choice lited
above are example of a phihing attack.

A group of computer that i
networked together and ued 
hacker to teal information i
called a …  21%
 
You correctl anwered Botnet
A rootkit i a tpe of maliciou oftware
deigned to gain unauthorized acce to a
Correctl: 54% 
computer tem. DDo tand for
Incorrectl:
Ditriuted Denial of ervice, it i an attack
 
where large amount of requet are ent to
Not ure: 24%
a we erver in order to overwhelm the
erver and hut it down.

ome weite and online ervice
ue a ecurit proce called two- Thi i the onl example of two-tep
tep authentication. Which of the authentication lited – true two-tep
following image i an example of authentication require the uer to enter a
two-tep authentication?  Correctl: 51%  one-time code each time the log in to their
  Incorrectl: account, in addition to their regular
You correctl anwered  22%  uername and paword. While the other
1 Not ure: 26% anwer ma require uer to perform two
eparate operation to gain acce to a ite,
the are not example of two-tep
authentication.

Thi paword contain the aic element
of a trong paword recommended 
expert. It contain a comination of letter,
Which of the following four numer and mol; it include oth upper
Correctl: 48% 
paword i the mot ecure?  and lower cae letter; and it doe not
Incorrectl: 9% 
  contain an word from the dictionar. For
Not ure: 43%
You correctl anwered WTh!5Z more information on creating trong
paword, ee:
http://www.wired.com/2016/05/paword-
tip-expert/

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Criminal acce omeone’
computer and encrpt the uer’
peronal file and data. The uer i
Correctl: 39% 
unale to acce thi data unle Driving i hort for for “war driving,” which i
Incorrectl:
the pa the criminal to decrpt the a technique where hacker drive around an
12% 
file. Thi practice i called …  area looking for inecure Wi-Fi network.
Not ure: 49%
 
You anwered Not sure 
The correct anwer i Ranomware

“Private rowing” i a feature in
man internet rower that let
uer acce we page without
an information (like rowing Private rowing prevent a uer’ internet
Correctl: 33% 
hitor) eing tored  the rower. rower from toring certain kind of file on
Incorrectl:
Can internet ervice provider ee hi or her device. However, internet ervice
12% 
the online activitie of their provider can till ee all of the detail of the
Not ure: 54%
ucrier when thoe ucrier uer' we traffic.
are uing private rowing? 
 
You correctl anwered Yes

Turning off the GP function of our
Correctl: 10% 
martphone prevent an tracking In addition to GP, martphone can alo e
Incorrectl:
of our phone’ location.  tracked uing the cellphone tower or Wi-Fi
71% 
  network that the phone i connected to.
Not ure: 18%
You correctl anwered False

If a pulic Wi-Fi network (uch a in
an airport or café) require a
ven if a pulic Wi-Fi network require a
paword to acce, i it generall
paword, other uer can potentiall view
afe to ue that network for Correctl: 16% 
the enitive information a uer end
enitive activitie uch a online Incorrectl:
acro that Wi-Fi network. For more
anking?  10% 
information ee:
  Not ure: 73%
http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/how-to-ta-
You anwered Not sure 
afe-on-pulic-wifi-1779464400
The correct anwer i No, it i not
afe

What kind of cerecurit rik can
e minimized  uing a Virtual
Private Network (VPN)?  Incorrectl:
 
You correctl anwered Use of
insecure Wi-Fi networks
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) allow uer
Correctl: 13% 
to create an encrpted connection etween
their device and the internet, making it
16% 
much harder for anone other than the uer
Not ure: 70%
to ee their activit.

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