Ports
Endless Acronyms
All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets
100

Port for HTTPS

What is 443?

100

These consumer goods are WiFi connected (whether you like it or not!)

What is IOT? (Internet of things)

100

These are two types of SSH authentication

What are password-based, public key auth, host-based auth

200

Port for SNMP

What is 161?

200

Call me, text me, if you want to login

What is MFA? (Multi-factor authentication)

200

This type of public-key cryptography requires you to brush up on geometry

What is elliptic-curve?

300

Port for VNC

What is 5800?

300

This device's signature move is to detect suspicious traffic

What is an IDS? (Intrusion Detection System)

300
Technique that improves the security of a hashed password

What is salting?

400

Port for LDAP

What is 389?

400

This king of vulnerabilities can be leveraged without an attacker leaving their couch

What is RCE? (remote code execution)

400

This cryptographic authentication technique requires a hash function and secret key

What is HMAC? (Hash-based Message Authentication Code)

500

Port for NTP

123

500

This type of eavesdropping attack can be done without a can on a string

What is MITM? (Man-in-the-middle)

500

This keyed hashing function was designed to combat "hash flooding" DoS attacks

What is SipHash?