The Internet
What does the "S" stand for in HTTPS??
Secure
This is what your keyboard, monitor, and mouse are called collectively.
Peripherals
unsolicited email is called what?
SPAM
He is credited for being the founder of Microsoft.
Bill Gates
This classic, low-tech technique involves a bad actor literally looking over someone's back to steal passwords or PINs at an ATM or keyboard.
shoulder surfing
On April 23, 2005, co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a 19-second clip titled "Me at the zoo," making it the very first video in the history of this massive platform.
YouTube
This is what ROM stands for
Read Only Memory
If an attacker targets you and thousands of others with a malicious attachment on an email, what is that called?
Phishing
What does DOS stand for?
Disk Operating System
This type of security system acts as a barrier between a trusted internal network and untrusted external traffic, blocking or allowing packets based on a set of rules.
Firewall
These are the names of 4 web browsers.
Edge, Safari, Chrome, Firefox
This is the main component of your computer's internal parts. Everything plugs into it.
Motherboard
Unlike CC, this email feature allows you to send a message to a recipient while keeping their address completely hidden from everyone else on the thread.
BCC (blind carbon copy)
Built into Windows, this advanced event logging service categorizes system, security, and application logs, making it a primary data source for Windows security analysts.
Event Viewer
What kind of attack takes a system offline completely, making it unreachable for anyone?
Denial of Service (DOS)
These are three ways that you can get to the Internet.
Broadband, Cellular, Satellite
What does BSOD mean?
Blue Screen of Death
Originally launched by Google on April Fool's Day in 2004, this webmail service shocked users by offering an unprecedented 1 gigabyte of free storage space.
Gmail
In 1991, Finnish student Linus Torvalds created a free, open-source version of this core software component, which now runs the vast majority of the world's internet servers.
Linux
What does CIA stand for in Cyber and Information Security?
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
This is the part of the Internet that is not searchable by standard search engines.
The Dark Web
Sharing its name with the seed inside a popcorn unpopped piece, this is the fundamental, innermost layer of an operating system that commands the hardware.
The Kernel
What does SMTP stand for?
Simple Mail Transport Protocol
Pressing a specific key sequence during a computer's initial power-on phase grants access to this firmware interface, responsible for initializing hardware before loading the actual OS.
BIOS
This type of vulnerability is exploited by hackers before the software developer even knows it exists, leaving them no time to create a patch.
Zero-Day vulnerability