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This server is a computer system that stores, processes, and delivers web content to users over the internet using protocols like HTTP. It responds to requests from web browsers by sending back the requested files, such as HTML pages, images, and videos.
What is a web server?
This term refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits, making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900.
What is the year 2000 problem or Y2K?
This is a data type that represents text, such as letters, numbers, symbols, and spaces.
What is a string?
This is a malicious code that is disguised as a legitimate file or program to gain access to a computer or network.
What is a Trojan Horse?
This e word refers to the act of freeing someone from the restraint, control, or power of another. (5 syllables)
What is emancipation?
This server translates website domain names into numerical IP addresses, allowing users to access websites using easy-to-remember names instead of complex numbers.
What is a DNS server?
In the 256th level of this game, a bug results in a kill screen. The maximum number of fruit available is seven and when that number rolls over, it causes the entire right side of the screen to become a jumbled mess of symbols while the left side remains normal.
What is Pac-Man?
This is a data type that represents whole numbers, which can be positive, negative, or zero, without any fractional parts.
What is an integer?
This is an anomaly where a program writes more data to a buffer (a temporary storage area) than it can hold, causing the excess data to overwrite adjacent memory. This can lead to unexpected behavior, including crashes or security vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.
What is a buffer overflow?
This p word refers to the child or descendant of a particular parent or family. It can also refer to the offspring of an animal or plant, or broadly to something that is the product of something else. (3 syllables)
What is progeny?
This server is a network server that automatically assigns IP addresses to devices on a network, allowing them to communicate effectively.
What is a DHCP server?
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This company is responsible for the copy protection rootkit scandal in 2005 where a Van Zant music CD covertly installed a rootkit on any Windows PC that was used to play it. Their intent was to hide the copy protection mechanism to make it harder to circumvent, but unfortunately the rootkit opened a security hole resulting in a wave of successful trojan horse attacks on the computers of those who had innocently played the CD.
Who is Sony BMG?
This is a data type that can hold one of two values: true or false.
What is a Boolean?
This is a cyber attack where an attacker inserts malicious SQL code in a query through user input fields, allowing them to manipulate or access sensitive data in a database. This vulnerability often arises from improper coding practices in web applications that do not adequately validate user inputs.
What is SQL Injection?
This j word means to put something or someone at risk or in danger. (3 syllables)
What is jeopardize?
This is a network server that manages user authentication and access to resources within a network domain. It also stores user account information and enforces security policies.
What is a domain controller server?
This series of technical problems in a particular device cost Microsoft over 1.15 billion dollars in repairs and shipping, triggered multiple lawsuits, and threatened the viability of their brand. These issues could be identified by a pattern of red lights on the front face of the device, leading to it becoming known as this.
What is the Red Ring of Death?
This is a data type that is used to represent real numbers with a fractional part.
What is float or double?
This is a collection of malicious software designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed. It gives someone the highest privileges in a system without the owner's consent or knowledge.
What is a rootkit?
This c word means to work with another person or group in order to do or achieve something and is a synonym of cooperate. It can also be used disapprovingly to mean "to cooperate with or willingly assist an enemy of one's country and especially an enemy who occupies it during a war." (4 syllables)
What is collaborate?
This is a server that acts as a gateway between a user's device and the internet, helping to mask the user's IP address and enhance online privacy. It forwards requests from the user to the internet and returns the responses, providing additional security and potentially improving performance.
What is a proxy server?
This bug is a time computing problem that will leave some computer systems unable to represent time after 03:14:07 UTC on January 19th of this particular year. The problem exists in systems which measure Unix time and store it in a signed 32-bit integer (like IoT devices, embedded systems, 32-bit operating systems), which will suffer a buffer overflow on that date, causing time to be displayed as 20:45:52 UTC on December 13th, 1901.
What is the year 2038 problem or Y2K38 superbug?
This is a data type that lists a number of elements in a specific order - typically of the same data type.
What is an array?
This term refers to the set of tools and techniques that attackers use to maintain communication with compromised devices following initial exploitation. While the specific mechanisms vary greatly between attacks, this generally consists of one or more covert communication channels between devices in a victim organization and a platform that the attacker controls. These channels are used to issue instructions to the compromised devices, download additional malicious payloads, and pipe stolen data back to the adversary.
What is Command and Control Infrastructure, C2, or C&C?
This i word refers to an utterly ignorant or stupid person. (4 syllables)
What is ignoramus?