Why Systems Break
Hacks & Gadgets
Staying Safe
Protectors & People
Hacking & the Law
100
The Internet began as this network linking universities, tech companies, and government installations.
What is ARPANET?
100
Heartbleed got its name from this section of the OpenSSL code.
What is the heartbeat section?
100
The three MFA categories: something you know, something you are, and this.
What is something you have?
100
Cybersecurity's three goals: confidentiality, integrity, and this.
What is availability?
100
Besides accessing a computer without authorization, the CFAA bans doing this.
What is exceeding authorized access?
200
In the 1990s, Dan Farmer probed 1,700 websites and found about this fraction had security weaknesses.
What is two-thirds?
200
The nonprofit supporting OpenSSL had one employee and received about this much in donations per year.
What is $2,000?
200
Entering a password and then a PIN is not multifactor authentication for this reason.
What is both items come from the same category?
200
Websites and servers built to look attractive to hackers so professionals can record and study them.
What are honey pots?
200
Lori Drew was charged because MySpace's terms required profile information to be this.
What is truthful?
300
Falsified shortest-path lists once routed large portions of U.S. military traffic through this country.
What is China?
300
Researchers remotely took control of early versions of these Philips smart devices.
What are Hue light bulbs?
300
Iraqi insurgents intercepted unencrypted U.S. Predator drone video using software that cost this much.
What is $26?
300
An authorized employee scans in, then holds a secure door open for the next person. The textbook calls this.
What is tailgating?
300
Aaron Swartz held this position at Harvard when he downloaded the JSTOR articles.
What is a research fellow?
400
Traffic between two computers a short distance apart in Denver once passed through malicious servers in this country.
What is Iceland?
400
After researchers took over a car's transmission and brakes, the maker recalled more than this many cars.
What is 1.4 million?
400
After cracking TJX's out-of-date wireless encryption, hackers stole card data for about this many months.
What is 18?
400
In a test mailing of 150,000 emails, this percentage of recipients clicked the attachment.
What is 11%?
400
This author's book The Hacker Crackdown describes teenage phone phreakers in 1878.
Who is Bruce Sterling?
500
IT departments protested automatic updates because they often failed to work with these.
What are internal applications?
500
Using a laptop-sized device that mimics a cell tower, a consultant hacked smartphones from this distance.
What is 30 feet?
500
The core Internet communications protocol, which does not encrypt data.
What is TCP/IP?
500
Dan Kaminsky found a major flaw in this Internet system and gave companies 30 days before going public.
What is the domain name system (DNS)?
500
As a young physicist at Los Alamos, this future Nobel winner cracked safes holding atomic bomb secrets.
Who is Richard Feynman?
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