Cyber Threats
Games & Fun
Internet Terms
Security
Automation
200

One of the most common types of social engineering attacks and is a homophone of something you could do in a body of water

Phishing

200

This famous plumber wears red and jumps on Goombas

Mario

200

Text or graphic that connects to another page or site

Hyperlink

200

MFA is an acronym for this term

Multi-Factor Authentication

200

The term for machines mimicking human intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

400

An attack where the bad guys disguise themselves using a legitimate email address

Spoofing

400

This “battle royale” game has dances and building battles

Fortnite

400

The address of a webpage

URL

400

Multiple layers of security to defend a network

Defense in Depth

400

This voice assistant from Apple uses AI to help users with daily tasks

Siri

600

Manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information

Social Engineering

600

This cube-based game lets you build anything — even your school!

Minecraft

600

"WI-FI" is short for this

Wireless Fidelity

600

This protocol authenticates websites and confirms its trustworthiness

HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)

600

This AI model from OpenAI can generate human-like text and answer questions

ChatGPT

800

An attack where the threat places themselves between the sending user and the receiving user

Man in the Middle attack

800

VR stands for this, and it puts you inside the game world

Virtual Reality

800

WWW stands for this

World Wide Web

800

This attack involves sneaking into a prohibited place behind a person who is authorized to enter.

Tailgating

800

This social media platform uses AI to automatically tag people in photos

Facebook (or Meta)

1000
An attack where there is an effort to flood a specific resource leaving it slow or unusable
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
1000

Websites use this to keep track of your activity — not the chocolate chip kind

Cookies

1000

A uniquely assigned numeric address for each computer connected to the internet

IP Address

1000

Three forms of biometrics used for identity and access management

(possible answers) Fingerprints, Facial Recognition, Retinal Scan, Iris Scan, Voice Recognition

1000

AI can help you make this kind of fun moving picture — perfect for memes

GIF

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