Cyber Security People(Hackers)
Responsible for much of the early interest in phone phreaking, John Thomas Draper was also known by this name.
Who is Captain Crunch?
This hacker group was responsible for the suggestively named program "Back Orifice".
Who are CDC(Cult of the Dead Cow)?
A cyber-attack accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests originating from many different sources in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled.
What is DDoS(Distributed Denial of Service)?
This free password cracking suite is a play on words in reference to a famous and unidentified Serial Killer.
What is John the Ripper?
This early phone phreak, Josef Carl Engressia Jr.(Joybubbles), was donned with the nickname "Whistler" because he had this trait.
What is Perfect Pitch?
This hacker collective famously testified in front of Congress in 1998 on the topic of 'Weak Computer Security in Government'.
Who are L0pht?
A computer-software vulnerability unknown to those who should be interested in its mitigation.
What is a Zero Day?
This Rapid7 tool is used for developing and executing exploit code against remote target machines.
What is Metasploit Framework?
This LulzSec member was convicted of hacking CyberSecurity company Stratfor in 2013.
Who is Jeremy Hammond?
This nation-state sponsored hacker group classified by the U.S. Government as APT29, was responsible for the SUNBURST Malware Supply Chain Attack disclosed by CyberSecurity firm FireEye in December 2020.
Who are Cozy Bear?
A cyberattack where the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters the communications between two parties who believe they are directly communicating with each other; generally after hijacking session cookies or a session key.
What is Man-in-the-middle?
This Firefox extension used packet sniffing to intercept un-encrypted session cookies from websites such as Facebook and proceeded to use those cookies as an avenue for the operator to hijack sessions.
What is Firesheep?
This convicted hacker turned Cyber Security Consultant wrote the 2002 book The Art of Deception.
Who is Kevin Mitnick?
This Russian Cybermilitary unit is responsible for using Petya malware to launch a CyberAttack on the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Who are SandWorm?
This worm, first discovered in 2010, primarily targeted SCADA(supervisory control and data acquisition) and was responsible for destroying nearly 1/5 of Iran's Nuclear Centrifuges.
What is Stuxnet?
This network software suite consists of a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker and analysis tool for 802.11 wireless LANs.
What is Aircrack-ng?
This Texas Candidate for U.S. Senator was also a member of Cult of the Dead Cow, the legendary hacking group out of Lubbock, TX, under the pseudonym "Psychedelic Warlord".
Who is Beto O'Rourke?
This APT group, allegedly associated with the Chinese Government, is responsible for the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breaches.
Who are Hafnium?
This cryptoworm was propagated via EternalBlue, an exploit developed by the NSA which was subsequently stolen and leaked.
What is WannaCry?
Developed by Paterva Software out of Pretoria, South Africa, this software suite is used for open-source intelligence and forensics; providing a library of transforms for discovery of data from open sources, and visualizing that information in a graph format, suitable for link analysis and data mining.
What is Maltego?