Acronyms
FTP
What is "File Transfer Protocol"
Smallest and most basic type of network connecting nearby devices close to the end user
What is "PAN" or "Personal Area Network"
Internet Service Provider who provided FioS internet
What is "Frontier" or "Verizon"
This attack is designed to shut down a network/machine making it inaccessible.
What is "A Denial of Service" or "DoS"
Popular small-screen anti-hero who gave up being a High School Chemistry teacher to sell crystal methamphetamine.
What is "Walter White" or "Bryan Cranston"
MAC
What is "Media Access Control"
Most common type of network connecting our home devices together.
What is "LAN" or "Local Area Network"
Company who sponsors the CCNA exam
What is "Cisco"
Manipulating information between two individuals in an effort to compromise data is this type of black-hat breach
What is "Man in the Middle"
Tesla Motors demonstrated the capabilities of this all-electric truck at a recent auto show.
What is "The Cyber Truck"
WEP
What is "Wired Equivalent Privacy"
Connects computers together across long distances
What is the "WAN" or "Wide Area Network"
Parent company of the Spectrum Internet Service Provider company
What is "Charter"
Altering the physical address of a device to get by the access point filters
What is "Mac Spoofing"
Popular Disney/Pixar movie which featured Marlin and Dory in search of his son.
What is "Finding Nemo"
ISP
What is Quality of Service
Usually larger than a conventional home network and spanning over a close knit city block.
What is "MAN" or "Metropolitan Area Network"
This company sponsors the Net+ exam
What is "CompTIA"
Gaining access to some data and using it to gain an advantage or financial compensation from the guilty party.
What is "Ransomware"
The common Florida Manatee does this to stay afloat
What is "Fart" or "Release Gasses"
SSH
What is "Secure Shell"
A network that is typically used in K-12, Colleges and Universities.
What is "CAN" or "Campus Area Network"
Non-Profit, Owner of the "Wi-Fi" trademark
What is "The Wi-Fi Alliance"
This popular pen testing Linux distribution was formerly known as BackTrack
What is "Kali"
Popular 80s band who sang the hit song, "We're Not Gonna Take It"
What is "Twisted Sister"