People Hacking Current Events Potpourri

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Who is Dan Kaminsky?
He is best known for his DNS exploits.

100

What is clicking cancel or 'X'?
This is a fool-proof method to bypass Windows 98 authenication.

100

1024 bit RSA
What cipher was recently (theoretically) broken by University of Michigan students.

100

Black
What color is Gerry's shirt?

200

Who is Kevin Mitnick?
He is best known for his social engineering exploits and hacking various large companies.

200

What is a blue box?
Steve Woziank built this in college.

200

4096 bytes
Hard drive sector size is shifting from 512 bytes to this.

200

Answers vary, examples include BSD, Apache, Mozilla, MIT
Name two other open source programming licenses besides the GNU/GPL.

300

Who is Bill Gates?
He dropped out of Harvard in 1975 and was arrested in New Mexico in 1977.

300

What is Metasploit?
This suite of tools was created by HD Moore.

300

Heap spray
Aurora was this type of attack.

300

Apple Inc.
This company is located at 1 Infinite Loop.

400

Who is Linus Torvalds?
He is best known for his 1991 grad project.

400

What is Alpine?
Default root password on all Apple iPod/iPhones.

400

Google (Chrome)
The security team of this company will reward you with $1337 for finding exploits in their browser.

400

1985
When was Windows 1.0 released?

500

Who is Adrian Lamo?
He is also known as the "Homeless hacker".

500

This could vary, Shmoocon, RSA, CCC, Source, Quahog, Notacon, CanSecWestm etc
Name three other security conferences besides Blackhat and Defcon.

500

Cars
A hacker in Texas recently hacked over 100 of these.

500

Haiku/BeOS, OS2, Plan 9, IRIX/AIX/HP-UX
Name three other operating systems besides *BSD/Windows/Linux.

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