Test your knowledge - Security Center

Check your knowledge of computer security thanks to the 8 questions below.
The various sections of this site contain the responses to the questions asked below.
If necessary, do not hesitate to read some of the articles on this site carefully.
You can only give a single answer to each of the questions.

1 - Tick the right answer:

An Anti-Virus product warns you of software that captures your navigation habits, even the information that you type on your keyboard (password, connection identifier, etc).

I don't need an anti-virus product because I don't use the Internet and also my computer is brand new.

I've installed an anti-virus product, but that isn't enough to protect me from viruses.

2 - A padlock appeared in the bottom right of my screen and «https» appeared in the site's URL address.
Can you now say that the Internet session is secured?

Yes

3 - According to you, what is a COOKIE in computing?

A small data package sent by an Internet server and kept by the navigator.

An unsolicited e-mail sent to a number of recipients.

A programming language

4 - Regularly updating my anti-virus and anti-spyware products ensures that I have the best possible protection.

False

True

5 - Which of these three propositions is false:

An ideal password is one that is easy to remember and find, for example: your first name followed by your date of birth.

When you receive some spam, destroy it. Never reply to the spam to deregister: you could validate your address for the spammer, who would continue to pester you.

If you receive an e-mail from the Internet where the sender is unknown or not properly identified, you must destroy it; above all do not click on the attached files received, so as to avoid a possible risk of being infected with a virus.

6 - You receive an e-mail from your Bank asking you to change your Internet access and identifier codes for security reasons.
What do you do?

You do what is asked via the link contained in the e-mail.

You do what is asked by telephoning the number shown in the e-mail.

You telephone your regular advisor to check this information.

7 - What is meant by a Trojan Horse?

A term describing the obtaining of confidential information (such as passwords or other private information), by falsely claiming to the victims to be a trust-worthy person having a legitimate need for the requested information.

An e-mail spreading false information and urging the recipient to do something and/or send the news to everyone he or she knows.

A program being run without the user's knowledge and designed so that a third party can have access to the victim's computer for malicious purposes. A lure is used to introduce it into the computer via a game or an attractive utility.

8 - Find the odd-man-out!

HTTP - (HyperText Transfer Protocol), a protocol used to exchange data between a web server and an Internet navigator. For example, on entering the address http://www.bnpparibas.com/securitycenter.com, the navigator uses the HTTP protocol to connect to the Security Center site's web server and receive the page content.

HTTPS - HyperText Transfer Protocol over SSL - the secured version of the HTTP protocol (encryption of transferred data and authentication of the web site).

HTMLS - (Hyper Text Mark Up Language Secured), - The secured language for displaying web pages; it makes it possible in particular to create secured links between pages.