Types of attacks
A scammer creates a fake email and sends it to thousands of people, hoping some of them will click on a link and give up their personal information.
What is Phishing?
This service allows users to remain anonymous, masking their identity/location and encrypts traffic.
What is a VPN?
This ex-government employee is famous for leaking classified cybersecurity information from the National Security Agency in 2013.
Who is Edward Snowden?
Cybercrime went up 600% due to this ongoing event
What is the Pandemic / COVID-19 / Coronavirus?
Within Proofpoint, VAP is an acronym for...
A. Vulgar Aggressive Persons
B. Verily Anonymous Protocol
C. Very Attacked People
D. Verified Acronym Proof
What is the 6-letter term for a group of computers that is networked together and used by hackers to steal information?
Botnet
Founded by Jay Chaudhry in 2007 and based in San Jose California, which cloud security company has the NASDAQ code ZS?
ZScaler
An independent malware program that self-replicates in order to spread from machine to machine to cause damage.
What is a (computer) worm?
Which cybersecurity framework states that a network is always at risk from outside and inside threats, that every user should be verified every time, and that users should only have as much access as they need?
Zero Trust
What is the name of the Austin-based software business founded by brothers David and Donald Yonce considered to be in the middle of the December 2020 Federal government hack?
Solarwinds
According to an analysis by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre that investigated passwords belonging to hacked accounts worldwide, what is the most common six-letter "word" that is used for passwords that don't require numbers or punctuation?
Qwerty
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A. Wisdom
B. Element
C. Knight
D. Protect
What color team are the operators who try to block a mock attack on their system?
BLUE
Headquartered (somewhat ironically?) in Santa Clara, California, what is the name of the American cybersecurity company that serves 85 of the Fortune 100 and is the home to both the Unit 42 threat research team and the Ignite cybersecurity conference?
Palo Alto Networks
This attack type is frequently associated with BazaLoader malware and is often referred to as BazaCall. Both attack types are what Proofpoint considers to be the acronym TOAD.
What is Telephone Oriented Attack Delivery?
In June 2022, which Maryland-based global hotel chain experienced its third major cybersecurity breach in four years, with guest credit card data and internal business info being among the data compromised by the hack (which was an attempt to extort money from the company)?
Which term is used to describe the “cargo” that malware brings with it when it infects a device?
Payload
TAP is an acronym for Proofpoint's threat dashboard tool.
What is Targeted Attack Protection?
(Source: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/products/advanced-threat-protection/targeted-attack-protection)
What “B” is a type of identity-based data whose examples include fingerprints, DNA, and handwritten text?
Biometric
What C-word cybersecurity firm based in Austin has a one-word compound name that implies it can attack problems quickly across a variety of software? Its logo is a red hawk swooping in, just like bad luck on July 18, 2024.
Crowdstrike
This attack aims to make a service such as a website unusable by “flooding” it with malicious traffic or data from multiple sources (often botnets).
What is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)?
This is a method of access control by which users must present multiple, separate pieces of identification, such as a password and keycard, in order to access a system.
What is multi-factor authentication?
Google’s reCAPTCHA protects websites from getting spammed by making users complete a visual task (like picking out all the bicycles in a photo). It’s an example of which famous test to tell humans from machines? (Hint: It was originally called “the imitation game”).
Who is Alan Turing?
He helped in World War II by cracking intercepted messages from the German forces. He also created the "Turing test," which examines a machine's ability to display human behavior via artificial intelligence.
According to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies, what "A" word means "an individual, group, organization, or government that conducts or has the intent to conduct detrimental activities?"
Although cartoon bears might like it, a hacker might not enjoy being tricked into hacking what sweet-sounding, eight-letter decoy computer system that's purposely made to attract attackers to gain insight into how to decrease cybersecurity threats?
Honeypot
On June 7, 2021, the Department of Justice announced that it had seized approximately $2.3 million worth of what cryptocurrency from the Darkside Colonial Pipeline hackers?
Bitcoin
Formerly SaaSure Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco.[2] It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, website, web services, and devices.[3] It was founded in 2009 and had its initial public offering in 2017, reaching a valuation of over $6 billion.
Okta
Criminals access someone's computer and encrypt the user's personal files and data. The user is unable to access this data unless they pay the criminals to decrypt the files.
What is Ransomware?
(Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/quiz/cybersecurity-knowledge/)
When a URL has this at the beginning, it means that the information entered into the site is encrypted
What is "https"?
(Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/quiz/cybersecurity-knowledge/)
The Pentagon receives approximately this many cybersecurity attack reports every day
(Hint: guess # in millions)
What is 10 million?
(Source: https://www.inap.com/blog/19-cybersecurity-national-cybersecurity-awareness-month-2019/)
What term is used for a testing environment in a computer system in which new or untested software or coding can be run securely? In a different context, this term refers to a children’s play area.
Sandbox
What sort of tracking involves inserting an intermediary link between you and the website you want to visit, allowing a tracker to know you and/or your interests, and thus use this data to sell more targeted ads.
Bounce tracking
A Proofpoint competitor, what company, founded in 2003 by Dean Drako in Campbell, CA, offers security on networks and clouds? Its name is the same as a dangerous fish chronicled in a 1977 song by the band Heart.
Barracuda