Types of malware
Intended to make money for the creator of the advertisement.
What is adware?
Cryptanalysis is the discipline that embodies the principles, means, and methods for the providing information security, including confidentiality, data integrity, non-repudiation, and authenticity.
What is, Um...actually, cryptography?
A 1999 science fiction action film. It depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality created by intelligent machines. Believing computer hacker Neo to be "the One" prophesied to defeat them, Morpheus recruits him into a rebellion against the machines.
What is The Matrix?
This animal is commonly associated with Russian threat actor groups.
What is bear?
The smallest possible representation of binary data.
What are bits?
Collects information without the knowledge of the computer user.
What is spyware?
Cracking of the Enigma ciphering system enabled the western Allies in World War II to read substantial amounts of Morse-coded radio communications of the Axis powers that had been enciphered using Enigma machines. This yielded military intelligence which, along with that from other decrypted Axis radio and teleprinter transmissions, was given the codename Spectre.
What is, Um...actually...Ultra?
Elliot Alderson refers to E Corp as this reflecting his negative perception of the company.
What is Evil Corp?
Cyber weapon designed with four zero-days targeting Siemens Step7 SCADA software to disrupt Iranian nuclear program.
What is Stuxnet?
2 raised to this number equals half of 2^70.
What is 69?
Computer programs that replicate and are spread from one computer to another, typically through downloads or email attachments.
What are viruses?
In 2024, Cylance pushed an update to their security product that resulted in over 8.5 million systems to Blue Screen of Death worldwide.
What is, um...actually, CrowdStrike?
Considered a cornerstone of hacker culture:
The article is quoted several times in the 1995 movie Hackers.
A poster of this appears in the 2010 film The Social Network in the Harvard room of Mark Zuckerberg.
It is mentioned in Edward Snowden's autobiography Permanent Record.
What is The Conscience of a Hacker? (Aka the Hacker Manifesto)
A Russian GRU group with a Dune-inspired name believed to be behind the December 2015 Ukraine power grid cyberattack, the 2017 cyberattacks on Ukraine using the NotPetya malware, various interference efforts in the 2017 French presidential election, and the cyberattack on the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Who is APT44 (Sandworm)?
DNS minus telnet?
What is 30?
They don´t need human action in order to spread they are not attached to existing programs.
What are worms?
The first actual computer bug was discovered on 9 September 1945 in Relay #70 Panel F by a Navy WAVE named Alan Turing.
Who is, um...actually, Grace Hopper?
A book that takes place in two timelines. It tells of people like Bobby Shaftoe and Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse.
What is Cryptonomicon?
A common name for NSA's TAO (Tailored Access Operations) team.
Who is the Equation Group?
Max Verstappen knows that 241 in decimal is this number in hex.
What is F1?
Malware with relation to Greek myth
What are trojan horses?
Kevin Mandia, a colorful character who sold his software company in 1994, claimed he was arrested in Norway for wearing a thong as a face mask during COVID.
Who is, um...actually, John McAfee?
The novel explores the idea that the Sumerian language was the firmware programming language for the brainstem, functioning as the BIOS for the human brain. The virus is described as a modern equivalent of the ancient metavirus, which can be spread through verbal communication and sexual contact, leading to a state where individuals revert to speaking in tongues.
What is Snow Crash?
This Microsoft patch fixed the SMBv1 vulnerability discovered by NSA and leaked by the Shadow Brokers and used for the WannaCry ransomware attributed to DPRK threat actors.
What is MS17-010?
Command to throw shade in your version control.
What is "git blame"?