Cybersecurity
The most common type of error within companies that lead to successful cyber attacks
human error
Mark Zuckerberg founded this social media platform.
What is Facebook
A virtualized instance of a computer system running within a computer system
What is a virtual machine
A virus that replicates itself and spreads to other devices
What is a worm virus
Operating system commonly used by hackers
What is Kali Linux
Cyberattack where a fraudulent email is pretending to be from your bank and asks for your login information.
What is phishing.
One of the founders of Apple is Steve Jobs, who is the other founder. (Hint: They share first names)
Steve Wozniak
The company Elon Musk founded, aside from Tesla and SpaceX
What is Paypal
A virus that locks all your files until you pay a hefty sum
What is ransomware
Very common wordlist used in cyber CTF's/competitions
rockyou.txt
The code that identifies your computer when it communicates over a network
What is IP address
Programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia.
What is Java
An industry term used to refer to the process of gathering open-source information
What is OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence)
A virus that looks like a normal program, but executes malicious code in the background
What is a trojan horse
Program used to crack hashed text
What is hashcat
A colorful two-word term for a computer security expert who engages in “ethical hacking” to help expose and fix security flaws within a company’s information system.
What is White hat
Company that develops ChatGPT
OpenAI
The CompTIA certification for entry-level cybersecurity
What is the Security+
A virus that mines secretly mines cryptocurrency on your computer
What is a cryptomining/cryptojacking virus
Kali Linux program used to crack wifi network passwords
What is aircrack
The most common password worldwide which doesn't include numbers or punctuation.
qwerty
A well-known company that DARPA sold their Siri AI to
What is Apple
A delicious computer term that web browser programmer, Lou Montulli, created to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server
What is a cookie
a virus that displays unwanted advertisements on your computer, often slowing it down or taking up much of your screen
what is adware
An easy social-engineering program used in Kali Linux
What is the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)