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.
Hint: You should be using this at Starbucks!
What is a VPN or Virtual Private Network?
Cybercrime went up 600% due to this prior global health event
What is the Pandemic / COVID-19 / Coronavirus?
Alex Ovechkin is famous for wearing this Capitals number.
What is 8?
Georgetown’s teams are the Hoyas, and their mascot is this bulldog.
Who is Jack the Bulldog?
An independent malware program that self-replicates in order to spread from machine to machine to cause damage.
What is a (computer) worm?
This U.S. agency is known for cybersecurity guidance, alerts, and critical infrastructure defense.
What is CISA?
This age generation is currently the most impacted by cybercrime.
What are Millennials?
This NHL team won DC’s Stanley Cup in 2018.
Who are the Washington Capitals?
The University of Maryland’s teams are named for this turtle.
What is the Terrapin / Testudo?
This common email mistake happens when sensitive information is sent to the wrong recipient.
What is a misdirected email?
Proofpoint reporting cited millions of attacks using this scannable image format.
What are QR codes?
This MLB team won the 2019 World Series.
Who are the Washington Nationals?
George Mason University’s teams use this All American nickname.
What are the Patriots?
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?
Over the last year, malware on this operating system has gone up by 165%
What is MacOS?
This WNBA team won its first championship in 2019.
Who are the Washington Mystics?
Howard University’s teams use this powerful herd animal nickname.
What are the Bison?
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/)
GuidePoint Security was founded in this year.
What is 2011?
This MLS club won multiple early league championships and plays in black and red.
Who are D.C. United?
American University’s teams use this national bird nickname.
What are the Eagles?