Web
What does the S in HTTPS stand for (as opposed to HTTP)?
secure
What is phishing?
Name one thing that makes a stronger password.
accept any: longer length, symbols, numbers, capital letters, variety, etc.
This cipher was used by Julius Caesar and shifts each letter by some number.
Caesar cipher
This company created the social media platform where users “like” posts, founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004.
This is used to create a secure, encrypted connection over the Internet, preventing snooping on your traffic
VPN
What is ransomware?
Hackers hold peoples' data for ransom
What is 2FA?
2 Factor Authentication
What is the process of converting data into a secret format that requires a key?
encryption
Who founded Microsoft?
Bill Gates
This language is used to structure and display content on web pages.
HTML
What process is it where hackers trick people into granting them access to secure systems?
social engineering
What do websites use to track you on the Internet?
cookies
If you use the numbers 0 to 9 to construct a 5-digit PIN, how many possible PINs are there?
100,000
Who created the Linux Kernel?
Linus Torvalds
What does IP stand for?
Internet Protocol
What is the difference between a black-hat and white-hat hacker?
Black-hat hackers hack for personal gain, whereas white-hat hackers hack for ethical reasons.
What is a trojan?
A malicious program that masquerades as a benign one
What is hashing?
It's a string of characters that represents any given input that you can't identify the original from
What is the brand of the first popular Personal Computer
Apple
This attack overloads a website with many different kinds of requests.
DDoS
What is it called when a vulnerability is immediately exploitable?
0-day exploit
What is RSA and what does it stand for?
RSA is a public-key encryption system used to securely send data. It stands for Rivest–Shamir–Adleman, the surnames of its inventors.
What is a rainbow table?
precomputed list of common passwords and their hashed values
What decade did the World Wide Web become available to the public?
Early 1990s