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Comp-sci-fi
Application Security
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CIBC
100

Multiple Toto album covers feature this bladed weapon

What is a sword?

100

This 1999 blockbuster film follows Keanu Reeves as the character "Neo" on his journey to discover the secrets of this digitally simulated world.

What is The Matrix?

100

This attack exploits poor request validation to send malicious code snippets to the server.

What is injection?

100

This popular programming language was created by employees at Sun Microsystems in 1995 and features a coffee in its logo.

What is Java?

100

The long form of CIBC

What is Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce?

200

This still popular 1984 mega hit song was named after a continent.

What is Africa?

200

This AI, responsible for starting a nuclear war and creating cyborgs, serves as the main antagonist in the Terminator series

What is Skynet?

200

In a session hijacking attack, a valid one of these is acquired maliciously and used for access. 

What is a session token/cookie?

200

Early computer programs were written on and stored in decks of these.

What are cards?

200

CIBC was founded in this Canadian city.

What is Toronto

300

TOTO singer Joseph Williams, and his composer father John Williams, are the musical "Pride" of this "roaring" Disney animated film from 1994. 

What is the Lion King?

300

This 2004 film starring Will Smith, sees robot servants violating the "Three Laws of Robotics" as they begin to turn against their human owners.

What is I, Robot?

300

This cryptographic technique is commonly used for storing passwords.

What is hashing?

300

This ancient programing language is still used by mainframe computers.

What is COBOL?

300

In the late 60's CIBC introduced the first 24-hour cash dispenser in Canada that would eventually become one of these.

What is an ATM?

400

TOTO wrote the original "spicy" score for this desert-planet based 1984 Sci-Fi film that was recently remade in two parts in 2021 and 2024.

What is Dune?

400

In the 2008 Marvel blockbuster Iron Man, this A.I. Assistant helps Tony Stark to build and pilot the second Iron Man suit. 

What is J.A.R.V.I.S?

400

This process is used to scan open-source project dependencies for security vulnerabilities.

What is SCA (software composition analysis)?

400

These types of languages do not require variable types to be defined.

What are loosely typed languages?

400

In 1998, the Canadian government blocked CIBC from merging with this other large Canadian bank.

What is TD Bank.

500

Members of TOTO provided much of the backing music for a "scary" 1982 Michael Jackson album featuring songs such as "Billie Jean", "Beat It", and this title track that is also the name of the album.

What is Thriller?

500

It's navigation computer allegedly allowed this famous fictional space ship to complete the "Kessel Run" in 12 parsecs

What is the Millennium Falcon?


500

In the most recent OWASP top 10 list, this category, involving permissions, holds the #1 position on the list of security risks.

What is broken access control? 

500

Programming languages, and code in general, serve to simplify low level binary code and complex logic through this process.

What is Abstraction?

500

CIBC was a founding partner of this professional sports steam.

What is the Toronto Blue Jays