Networks
Hacker Threats
Risks of Data Transmission
Securing A Network
Random Stuff
100
This network lets information switch between different paths from devices, and sends it in sections called packets.
What is a packet-switching network?
100
Hackers tend to know the default names for these accounts when trying to enter a wireless router.
What is the username and password?
100
This type of person may make attempts to break into unprotected servers to gather and steal valuable information.
What is a hacker?
100
Once connected to a router, this should first be changed in order to prevent hackers from entering a wireless network.
What is change the default username and password?
100
This team won the Super Bowl last weekend.
Who is the Seattle Sea Hawks?
200
This is the rate at which data is exchanged over a network, often measured in bps.
What is the channel bandwidth?
200
Hackers have become skilled at hacking into this 128-bit key form of wireless security.
What is the wired equivalent privacy? (WEP)
200
This 32 character identifier is sent with all packets over the network, to differentiate one network from another.
What is the service set identifier? (SSID)
300
This network allows computer systems and devices to connect within a small local area, and is often used in homes and small offices.
What is a local area network? (LAN)
300
This act involves hackers driving with a laptop and antenna to detect and hack into wireless access points.
What is war driving?
300
To encrypt information on a server, the router must be set to this configuration.
What is Wi-Fi Protected Access? (WPA)
300
This is where the 2014 Winter Olympics are being held.
Where is Sochi, Russia?
400
This system software controls computer systems on a network, and how they operate and communicate with each other.
What is a network operating system?
400
Using this variable value on a set of unencrypted text will encrypt it, and vice versa.
What is an encryption key?
400
By disabling this broadcast, wireless devices cannot connect to a router.
What is the service set identifier? (SSID)
500
This device converts communication signals so they can be transmitted over a communication media.
What is a modem?
500
This type of network uses a public network to connect multiple users privately, and safely from hackers.
What is a virtual private network (VPN)?
500
WPA is a significantly more secure version of network protocol over this version, which is based on a 128-bit key.
What is wired equivalent privacy? (WEP)
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