Networking
Famous Figures
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Famous Facts
100
The three TCP packets involved in the 3-way handshake
What is SYN, SYN ACK, ACK?
100
The father of modern computer science
Who is Alan Turing?
100
The size (estimate) of unsigned integers in 32-bit C programs.
What is 4,294,967,295?
100
The company that suffered a major data breach during 2017 in which an estimated 143 million Americans had their personal information compromised.
What is Equifax?
100
The scare at the turn of the century involving the fear of computers having massive software and hardware failures in critical infrastructure.
What is Y2K?
200
The amount of hosts on a /25 network
What is 128?
200
A security researcher who recently stopped the spread of malware by purchasing a domain to be used as a DNS sinkhole.
Who is Marcus Hutchins?
200
A rooted binary tree, where each nodes store a value (key) and have two sub-nodes or children. For any node, the left children must have lower values than the parent, and the right children must have higher values than the parent.
What is a Binary Search Tree?
200
The vulnerable service in the MS08-067 bug.
What is SMB(Server Message Block)?
200
The group originally behind the development of TOR.
What is the U.S. Navy (also Naval Research Lab, ONI)?
300
The network topology in which each host is connected to a central hub with a point-to-point connection.
What is a Star Network?
300
This former tech executive would fall asleep at the office after hours of work. His receptionist once found him sleeping in the lobby and called security, not realizing who he was.
Who is Bill Gates?
300
The predecessor to the Java programming langauge.
What is Oak?
300
Appending this to a username opens a backdoor on port 6200 in vsftpd 2.3.4
What is a smiley face? :)
300
This computer was introduced in January of 1982 had 64 KB of RAM, a single-core 1.023 MHz processor, and a price tag of $595. Its predecessor was the VIC-20.
What is the Commodore 64?
400
The field in a packet that is utilized by tracert (traceroute)
What is TTL (time-to-live)?
400
The security researcher behind a worm that popularized the phrase "samy is my hero"
Who is Samy Kamkar?
400
The x86 assembly instruction for an Interrupt. Used to handle system calls in Linux.
What is int 0x80?
400
Dirty cow is an example of this type of vulnerability
What is a race condition?
400
The beginning of epoch time, or Unix Time.
What is 00:00:00 UTC Thursday 1, January 1970? (acceptable : January 1, 1970)
500
The protocol that is used by client machines to locate the URL of a HTTP proxy configuration file using DHCP and/or DNS discovery methods. It can be abused, particularly in Windows networks.
What is WPAD?
500
The creator of the PGP encryption program.
Who is Phil Zimmerman?
500
What would the following code print: int a = 9; int b = 10; int c = 11; c += c++ * --b % a++; printf("%d\n", c);
What is 12?
500
The Stuxnet virus targeted this type of Computer Systems in 20010
What are SCADA systems (will also accept PLC's)?
500
The company that funded initial GUI (graphical use interface) research
What is Xerox?
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