Famous Breaches & Hackers
In 2011, this gaming company faced a massive breach, compromising the personal details of millions of its online gaming service users.
What is Sony PlayStation Network?
This type of attack involves flooding a target with superfluous requests to overload systems and prevent legitimate requests.
What is a Denial of Service (DoS) attack?
A popular Linux distribution that comes preloaded with a variety of security testing tools.
What is Kali Linux (or Parrot)?
This notorious hacker, known for his exploits in the 1990s, was eventually caught and turned into a cybersecurity consultant, authoring books such as "The Art of Deception".
Who is Kevin Mitnick?
This security measure involves verifying the identity of a user or system by pairing something they know with something they have.
What is Two-Factor Authentication?
This company purchased Splunk in 2023.
Who is Cisco?
This hacker group, known for its politically charged actions and use of a Guy Fawkes mask, has targeted governments, corporations, and the Church of Scientology.
Who is Anonymous?
This attack intercepts and relays messages between two parties without them knowing.
What is a Man-in-the-Middle attack?
This tool, often associated with a snake, is a widely-used programming language that also finds applications in cybersecurity for writing scripts and analyzing data.
What is Python?
This network management company faced a breach in 2020, affecting several U.S. government agencies and major corporations.
What is SolarWinds?
A network protocol that provides an encrypted tunnel for transporting IP traffic through an untrusted network.
What is IPsec?
This term refers to a strategy that involves hiding a message, image, or file within another message, image, or file, primarily used to maintain the secrecy of the information.
What is Steganography?
This individual, known as "The Homeless Hacker," broke into several high-profile networks, including Microsoft and The New York Times, before his arrest in 2003.
Who is Adrian Lamo?
This protocol, developed by Netscape, is used for securing communications between web browsers and web servers.
What is SSL?
This tool is a command-line interface (CLI) web crawling tool written in Golang. It is designed to crawl websites to gather information and endpoints.
What is Katana?