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Arachnids
Zombies!
100
A page that when printed is wider than it is long.
What is landscape?
100
The number of digits in the hexadecimal system
What is 16?
100
There are two processes for finding information: Random Access and Sequential Access. Finding a number in a phone book is an of this process.
What is random access?
100
The program that controls the computer.
What is the Operating System?
100
This is created when zombie computers are networked together.
What is a botnet?
200
This exclusive legal right gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to sell or distribute the work.
What is copyright?
200
As it pertains to computer programming, this is a one or a zero.
What is a bit?
200
Two ways of sending a signal are digital and analog. A clock with hands on it.
What is analog?
200
You use these symbols to in a search query to designate that you want the search terms to appear in the exact order as written.
What are quotation marks?
200
A small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s browser for future use in tracking the user’s activity on that website.
What is a cookie
300
This legal right gives you the right to use software but not to sell it.
What is a software license?
300
A prefix used to denote one million of something
What is a Mega (something)?
300
This software development and production philosophy promotes the free redistribution and access to the program’s code.
What is open source?
300
A process of solving problems or achieving a goal by combining the contributions of a large, unconstrained, volunteer population whose members may or may not be paid for their work.
What is crowdsourcing?
300
In this social engineering scam, an email message seems to be addressed from someone within the company who is in a position of trust and requests information such as login IDs or passwords.
What is spear phishing (must include spear)?
400
The biggest threat to information security.
What is human error?
400
In Excel, this symbol is used to denote absolute cell references.
What is a dollar sign?
400
Two ways of sending a signal are analog and digital. An online checkbook balance
What is digital?
400
In Google, use this symbol in front of a word to indicate that you want the search to include synonyms
What is a tilde?
400
What your computer becomes when it becomes part of a botnet
What is a zombie?
500
The type of program used to access the Internet allowing you view and interact with web pages.
What is a browser?
500
The base 10 number 17 written in binary.
What is 10001?
500
The primary job of this program is to gather tokens
What is a Web Crawler?
500
The words AND, OR, and NOT are logical operators also known by the discover's last name.
What are Boolean Operators?
500
A program implemented by a hacker that makes repeated requests to a computer/server causing it become overloaded and crash.
What is a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDOS)