Networking
Systems
Cryptography
Web
Miscellaneous
100
The mailing address for your computer on the Internet.
What is an Internet Protocol address?
100
This is a type of memory on your computer that you can only read.
What is read only memory?
100
This basic cipher involves shifting every letter in the plaintext the same amount.
What is Caesar cipher?
100
This attack involves a Nigerian Prince sending you an email for a vast sum of money.
What is phishing?
100
The course code for the introductory undergraduate cybersecurity class at Stony Brook University.
What is CSE 331?
200
This keeps your packets safe when they go from computer to computer.
What is Transport Layer Security?
200
This is a more modern method of booting up computers that has replaced BIOS.
What is UEFI/EFI?
200
This type of math is commonly used in the field of cryptography.
What is modular arithmetic?
200
This is what impersonating a legitimate service in order to gain people's trust fraudulently is called.
What is spoofing?
200
The names of the creators of RSA.
Who are Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman?
300
This type of attack involves being in the middle of two entities communicating with each other.
What is a man in the middle attack?
300
This common security vulnerability involves exceeding memory capacity.
What is a buffer overflow?
300
This type of symmetric encryption is the foundation for securing almost all communication across the Internet.
What is Diffie-Hellman Secret Sharing?
300
These services are commonly used by websites to ensure that they don't get overloaded.
What is a Content Delivery Network?
300
The name of the British communications and signals intelligence agency. Bonus points if you know the full form.
What is Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)?
400
Disabling this caused Facebook and Facebook products to vanish off the Internet for almost 6 hours in 2021.
What is Border Gateway Protocol?
400
This type of attack gets your computer a little chilly to retrieve data from the RAM.
What is a cold boot attack?
400
The requirement for this microcontroller, which handles cryptography functions, got a lot of people in a huff when trying to install Windows 11.
What is Trusted Platform Module/TPM?
400
This attack usually involves dumping a bunch of information using cleverly placed syntax.
What is SQL injection?
400
What is Cicada 3301?
500
This was the name of a severe SSL vulnerability that caused servers to bleed out more data than they were asked for.
What is Heartbleed?
500
These devastating and nearly impossible to patch vulnerabilities were discovered in all pre-2019 x86 microprocessors.
Spectre and Meltdown
500
This sculpture, which sits at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, contains a cipher that has still not been decrypted.
What is Kryptos?
500
In 2017, this type of exploit allowed users of Valve Software's Steam client to view other people's profile info pages, and potentially access their Steam funds.
What is Cross-Site Scripting?
500
This poet was the first to use a simple substitution cipher in his work.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?