Quiz: When Code Becomes a Weapon

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Module 2 · Quiz

Check Your Understanding

Answer all questions correctly to complete this module.

Check Your Understanding

Answer all questions correctly to complete this module.

1. What made Stuxnet fundamentally different from previous cyber attacks?

It was the first virus to spread via email It was designed to cause physical damage to industrial equipment — crossing the line from data theft to real-world destruction It targeted personal computers instead of servers It was the largest data breach in history

2. What was Robert Tappan Morris's original intention with the Morris Worm?

To steal classified military data To prove he could hack into any computer To measure the size of the internet — it was a research experiment that went catastrophically wrong due to a reinfection bug To take down the entire internet as a protest

3. What do Stuxnet and the Morris Worm together teach about cybersecurity?

That all hackers are criminals That antivirus software can stop everything That both intentional attacks and accidental mistakes can cause massive damage — and that the gap between a researcher and a weapon is often just a single design flaw That government systems are unhackable

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