Encryption
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Hacking
100

This type of encryption requires the use of both public and private key pairing.

What is asymmetrical encryption?

100

This model is the basis for development of security systems.

What is the CIA Triad?
100

A piece of equipment that makes sure that each request is forwarded to its intended recipient.

What is a router?

100

Global ransomware attack on Windows computers with a "tearful" name.

What is Wannacry?

100

This department handles cybersecurity threats.

What is Department of Homeland Security?

200

This type of encryption uses a private key to secure information.

What is symmetrical encryption?

200

These are the three concepts for the triad.

What is confidentiality, integrity, and availability?
200

Multiple paths exist between any two points

What is redundancy?

200

The DOJ seized approximately $2.3 million worth of this type of currency from the Darkside Colonial Pipeline hackers.

What is bitcoin?

200

Penetration testing for a company to identify vulnerabilities.

What is legal or ethical hacking?

300

Something that includes a small part of a digital message, and metadata about the message, including where it came from and where it is going.

What is a packet?

300

Hoshonti mandates updating your personal profile but due to a DoS attack no one can log into the system.

This part of triad was broken.

What is availability?

300

Protocol allows for sending multiple packets between two computers by checking all packets arrived and they can be put back together in a proper order

What is TCP?

300
This popular website was breached exposing extramarital affairs in 2015.

What is Ashley Madison?

300

This type of hacker has criminal intentions.

What is a cracker?

400

This secret code requires the use of brute force and letter frequency analysis to crack.

What is a Cipher?

400

James sets a password to gain access to his phone. His little brother Rocco figures it out and gets into his apps.

This part of triad was broken.

What is confidentiality?

400

Ability to provide data transmission even when some connections between routers have failed

What is fault-tolerant routing?

400

This professional social networking site announced a theft of 6.5 million usernames and passwords in 2012.

What is LinkedIn?

400

A company's server is flooded with data until it can no longer cope with volume, rendering the server unreachable.  

What is DDoS?

500

This secret code can be read by substituting each letter in the plaintext with a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet.

What is Caesar Cipher?

500

Joseph discovers that he can log into his teacher’s online gradebook and changes his grades.

This part of the triad was broken.

What is Integrity?

500

Protocol that defines the structure of the internet address and assigns a unique address to every device on the internet

What is IP or Internet Protocol?

500

This hacker group reemerged in 2020 using a "man without a head" emblem.

What is Anonymous?

500

This colorful apparel is also a two-word term for a computer security expert that engages in "ethical hacking".

What is White Hat?