7 Layer Lasagna
This layer, often called "Layer 8" is not officially part of the OSI Model, however is commonly used by HR to describe the issue.
What is "the Human Layer" or "the Layer between Chair and Keyboard?"
This company sponsors the Cyber Innovation Lab at UCF
What is Lockheed Martin?
This famous 2010 worm targeted Iranian nuclear facilities and is often cited as the first major cyber-weapon.
What is Stuxnet?
First released in September 1997, this common network recon tool can also run Lua scripts! How Handy!
What is NMAP?
This year saw the opening of UCF as well as MLK's "I have a dream" speech
When was 1963?
This layer-1 technology, codified under the "IEEE 802.11" standard, has this rhyming name.
What is WiFi?
In this year, the UCF CCDC team won their first national championship, and North Korea hacked Sony in response to the movie "The Interview" featuring Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg
This 2017 ransomware, spread via EternalBlue, caused global outages and displayed a red screen with a ransom note.
What is WannaCry?
This technique involves diverting attackers into a fake environment designed to lure, observe, and analyze malicious behavior.
What is a honeypot?
This website, depending on the week, may present you with a glorious animation if there are discounts on a well known Publix food item.
This Layer-4 protocol is used by network devices, including routers, to send error messages and operational information indicating success or failure when communicating with another IP address.
What is ICMP?
The Horse Plinko Cyber Challenge saw its inagural run, HPCC0, in this semester. It was also the only Horse Plinko to not take place in October.
When was Spring 2023?
In 2000, this love-letter-themed email worm got its start as a rejected undergraduate thesis.
What is ILOVEYOU?
This privacy-focused Android OS allows you to set a duress pin (wiping the phone when a specific pin is entered) and automatically reboot the phone periodically to clear memory among other things
What is GrapheneOS
UCF's Memory Mall was this common suburban feature before grass was installed in the Late 90s / Early 2000s
This layer-4 technology, based on UDP, was originally invented by Google.
What is QUIC?
This is the year in which HackUCF was founded
When was 2013?
In 2016, this anime-themed malware hit Brian Kreb's blog with 620 Gbit/s of traffic before temporarily taking it offline.
What is Mirai / the Mirai Botnet?
This Open Source Browser was initially developed by the US Military, ironically.
What is TOR?
Founded to support the U.S. space program, this was UCF’s original name
What is Florida Technological University?
This International Organization developed the OSI Model is itself an Anagram of OSI. (Note: You must provide the FULL, ENGLISH name, not 3 letters)
What is the International Organization for Standardization?
Fun Fact: Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek word isos (ίσος, meaning "equal"). Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of our name is always ISO.
This semester saw the opening of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Innovation Lab.
When was Spring 2019?
This Turing Award winner proposed a persistent compiler attack in his acceptance speech, "Reflections on Trusting Trust."
Who is Ken Thompson?
This new feature announced at Apple's WWDC 2025 conference, provides always-on, synchronus memory-safety protection across its devices and is built on the hardware feature Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE).
What is Memory Integrity Enforcement?
The chain of retail stores which used to exist where the Dominos in the Breezeway does today
What is GameStop?