Hardware & Software
IT Acronyms
Cybersecurity
FINAL JEOPARDY
100

This device is used to input letters and numbers.

What is a keyboard?

100

CPU stands for this.

What is Central Processing Unit?

100

This type of attack tricks users into clicking malicious links in emails.

What is phishing?

200

A removable storage device, also known as a flash drive.

What is a USB drive?

200

HTML stands for this.

What is HyperText Markup Language?

200

This type of software locks your files and demands money.

What is ransomware?

300

This device displays visual output from a computer (Don't get too close to it!)

What is a monitor?

300

USB stands for this.

What is Universal Serial Bus?

300

This adds an extra step to logins, usually involving your phone or a code.

What is multi-factor authentication (MFA)?

400

This type of software controls hardware and manages system resources.

What is an operating system?

400

This stands for Domain Name System.

What is DNS?

400

This is the practice of disguising as a trustworthy source to manipulate people into revealing data.

What is social engineering?

500

Solid-state drives use this type of non-volatile memory instead of spinning platters.

What is flash memory?

500

This stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

What is SMTP?

500

This attack manipulates AI inputs to override instructions or reveal hidden data.

What is a prompt injection attack?

500

FINAL JEOPARDY:

This is the standard, unencrypted port number for IMAP. It is less secure and not recommended for most modern use cases. Port 993 is for secure and encrypted connections.

What is Port 143

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