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100Who is Dan Kaminsky?
He is best known for his DNS exploits.
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100What is clicking cancel or 'X'?
This is a fool-proof method to bypass Windows 98 authenication.
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1001024 bit RSA
What cipher was recently (theoretically) broken by University of Michigan students.
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100Black
What color is Gerry's shirt?
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200Who is Kevin Mitnick?
He is best known for his social engineering exploits and hacking various large companies.
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200What is a blue box?
Steve Woziank built this in college.
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2004096 bytes
Hard drive sector size is shifting from 512 bytes to this.
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200Answers vary, examples include BSD, Apache, Mozilla, MIT
Name two other open source programming licenses besides the GNU/GPL.
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300Who is Bill Gates?
He dropped out of Harvard in 1975 and was arrested in New Mexico in 1977.
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300What is Metasploit?
This suite of tools was created by HD Moore.
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300Heap spray
Aurora was this type of attack.
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300Apple Inc.
This company is located at 1 Infinite Loop.
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400Who is Linus Torvalds?
He is best known for his 1991 grad project.
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400What is Alpine?
Default root password on all Apple iPod/iPhones.
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400Google (Chrome)
The security team of this company will reward you with $1337 for finding exploits in their browser.
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4001985
When was Windows 1.0 released?
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500Who is Adrian Lamo?
He is also known as the "Homeless hacker".
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500This could vary, Shmoocon, RSA, CCC, Source, Quahog, Notacon, CanSecWestm etc
Name three other security conferences besides Blackhat and Defcon.
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500Cars
A hacker in Texas recently hacked over 100 of these.
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500Haiku/BeOS, OS2, Plan 9, IRIX/AIX/HP-UX
Name three other operating systems besides *BSD/Windows/Linux.
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