Acronyms and Terms
What does "VPN" stand for?
Virtual Private Network
What is two-factor authentication?
The number like 192.168.1.1 that identifies a device on a network.
IP address
A fake email that pretends to come from a trusted source to trick you into clicking a link or giving up information.
Phishing
What year was our institution founded? What are our colors? (Both must be correct)
1896 🐶 Garnet and Blue
What does "MFA" stand for?
Multi-Factor Authentication
Single-use codes you save ahead of time in case you lose your phone. Certain cases require passwords
Backup (recovery) codes
This hardware or software filters network traffic coming in and going out based on a set of rules.
Firewall
A name for a hacker who breaks into systems legally, with permission, to find weaknesses.
Ethical hacker (white hat)
Tallest building in Orangeburg County
Sojourner Truth Hall
What does "URL" stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
Your email shows up in a data breach. What’s the first thing you should do?
Change that password (and anywhere you reused it) and turn on MFA
The device that directs traffic between networks.
Router
Phishing done through SMS text messages instead of email.
Smishing
Only HBCU in the country with this program
Nuclear Engineering
In "HTTPS" what does the "S" stand for?
Secure
Specifying a pattern like “one capital, three lowercase, two digits” to narrow down a brute-force search.
Mask attack
In this attack, someone secretly intercepts, and may alter, the communication between two parties.
Man-in-the-middle (MITM), also called an on-path attack
Named after a Greek myth, this malware pretends to be legitimate software.
Trojan
Our new 500-bedroom residence hall is named after this civil rights leader
Benjamin Mays
The three goals of the CIA triad
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
This professional NETWORKING SITE's 2012 breach leaked millions of unsalted SHA-1 password hashes.
The hardware address built into a network card for communication on a local network.
MAC (media access control) address
Unlike a virus, this type of malware copies itself and spreads across networks without any user action.
Worm
Oldest building on campus
Lowman Hall was built in 1917