A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S.
CIA
What is Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability?
This command prints the contents of a file to the terminal.
What is cat?
This attack, typically perpetrated using a botnet, aims to take web resources offline.
What is a DDoS attack?
This Silicon Valley billionaire recently acquired Twitter for USD $44bn.
Who is Elon Musk?
This character device allows a user to provide alphanumeric input to a computer.
What is a keyboard?
AAA
What is Authentication, Authorization, Accounting?
This command prints the current directory the user is working in to the terminal.
What is pwd?
This type of attack with an outdated name describes a third party intercepting traffic and modifying it for nefarious reasons.
What is a Man-in-the-Middle attack?
This English Countess, mathematician, and writer, commonly referred to as the first programmer, has a day named after herself in October each year.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This component hold and allows communication between many of the crucial parts of a system.
What is a motherboard?
DHCP
What is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol?
This command allow users to install Debian packages in Linux.
What is dpkg?
This flaw in a system can be exploited by an attacker to compromise said system.
What is a vulnerability?
These two Steves founded Apple Computers Inc. on April 1st 1976.
Who are Jobs and Wozniak?
BONUS: Ronald Wayne
This component allows a computer to connect to a network.
What is a Network Interface Card (NIC)?
TCP/IP
What is Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol?
This PowerShell cmdlet prints a list of all active processes on the machine to the terminal.
What is Get-Process?
This piece of malicious code named after an ancient Turkish city looks legitimate, but will inflict harm to a system once installed.
What is a Trojan?
This person, who cracked the Enigma Machine during the Second World War, also developed a test for determining whether or not a computer is capable of human thought.
Who is Alan Turing?
This piece of external hardware acts as a backup for a short time in the event that power goes out.
What is an Uninterruptible Power Supply/UPS?
MAC (Both kinds)
What are Media Access Control, Message Authentication Code?
This command line utility allows users to change permissions in Windows.
What is icacls?
This piece of malware is self-replicating and does not require the use of files on an infected machine to do so.
What is a worm?
This American computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral had a hand in developing the first English language data processing compiler, and participated in the CODASYL consortium leading the COBOL being developed.
Who is Grace Hopper?
This large type of computer typically fills an entire room, and are mainly used by governments and large enterprises.
What is a Mainframe Computer?