TLAs (other acronyms)
Cybersecurity
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New Orleans
100

DBS

What is Don't Be Stupid?

100

A network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules.

What is a Firewall?

100

.mdb

What is Microsoft Access database file?

100

This keyboard shortcut reopens closed tabs

What is Control + Shift + T?

100

Tulane University’s mascot and New Orleans’s basketball team are both named after this bird

What is a Pelican?

200

VPN

What is Virtual Private Network?

200

The fraudulent practice of sending emails pretending to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information.

What is Phishing?

200

.exe

What is Executable file?

200

The year when the first iPhone was announced and launched

What is 2007?

200

Preposition that describes this city’s elevation in relation to sea level

What is Below?

300

SaaS

What is Software-as-a-Service?

300

This type of cyber attack floods systems, servers, or networks with traffic to exhaust resources and bandwidth.

What is Denial-of-Service (DoS)?

300

.xls

What is Microsoft Excel file?

300

This measure of memory/data storage is the equivalent of 1,024 Terabytes (TB)

What is a Petabyte?

300

Famous form of transportation. Tennessee Williams mentioned one in the title of a play

What is a Streetcar?

400

RAM

What is Random-Access Memory?

400

The use of a computer program to record every stroke on a keyboard made by a computer user.

What is Keystroke Logging (Keylogging)?

400

.rtf

What is Rich Text Format?

400

In 2006, Qatar Telecom hosted a charity auction selling this phone number for $2.75 million.

a. 123-4567

b. 555-5555

c. 999-0000

d. 666-6666

What is d. 666-6666

400

This stadium in downtown New Orleans is the largest enclosed arena in the world

What is the Mercedes-Benz Superdome?

500

DHCP

What is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol?

500

This popular hotel chain was the focus of a cyber attack compromising the personal information of 500 million customers.

What is Marriott?

500

.bmp

What is Bitmap image?

500

The birth month of Precipart's Associate Application Developer

What is August?

500

Mayor Cantrell declared a state of emergency after the city suffered this event in December 2019

What is a Cyber attack?