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100

Open source chat protocol based on XML that was approved by the IETF in 2004

What is XMPP?

100

Security standard used to regulate processors of card payments

What is PCI DSS?

100

Malware used to destroy Iranian uranium centrifuges

What is Stuxnet?

100

Hacker and social engineer who tapped the FBI's phone switches during his time on the run

Who is Kevin Mitnick?

100

Female hacker, wearing leather and abusing nmap

Who is Trinity?

200

Routing protocol first proposed in 1989 that bases decisions on the shortest available routes using Dijktras algorithm.

What is OSPF?

200

ISO standard defining the requirements for a information security management system

What is ISO 27001?

200

Hacker involved in the development of RSS who committed suicide in 2013 after a long legal process

Who is Aaron Swartz?

200

Legendary phreaker who discovered a plastic toy that could be used to perform free long distance calls

Who is Captain Crunch/John Draper?

200

Afro-American hacker with photographic memory and a lair called "Hackstock".

Who is Lord Nikon?

300

Local network discovery protocol utilizing HTTP over UDP

What is SSDP?

300

Security standards developed by the USA's government specifying requirements for federal computer systems

What is FIPS?

300

Cypherpunk and developer of the "Pretty Good Privacy" software suite

Who is Phil Zimmermann?

300

Father of DEF CON, the worlds largest conference for hackers and nukkers alike

Who is Jeff Moss?


300

Super computer used to simulate nuclear attacks and responses by the United States military.

What is the WOPR?

400

Protocol defined in 1979 to transfer files between UNICS systems

What is UUCP?

400
The three designers of one of the first public-key cryptosystems

Who are Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman?

400

Crazy person, former editor of the Swedish magazine "Hacker" and Arduino hobbyist

Who is Anders Ygeman?

400

Sword-swinging Metaverse veteran who also happens to deliver pizza for Uncle Enso

Who is Hiro Protagonist?

500

Protocol used to traverse NAT by establishing a connection through a relay server

What is TURN?

500

Contributor of DNS standards, maintainer for BIND and creator of one of the most used versions of CRON

Who is Paul Vixie?

500

Administrator and "judge" of the ".se" top domain until 1996

Who is Björn Eriksen?

500

Pale-skinned "cowboy" who hacks around in the Matrix

Who is Case?

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