Australia - Basics
What is the capital city of Australia?
Canberra
What term describes a system that controls network traffic based on security rules?
Firewall
Which sport is closely associated with Australia?
Cricket
What type of attack floods a server to make it unavailable?
Denial of Service (DoS) attack
Which city is nicknamed “The Harbour City”
Sydney
What single word describes the act of tricking someone into revealing personal information?
Phishing
The Australian Open takes place every year in which month?
January
What is social engineering in cyber attacks?
Human manipulation for data/access.
Which Australian city is known as “The Garden City”?
Adelaide
What single word describes the process of converting data into a secret code?
Encryption
Which Australian singer was a judge on The Voice Australia?
Guy Sebastian
What is a botnet?
Network of infected computers.
Which Australian state is the only one with no desert?
Tasmania
Name the three components of the CIA Triad
Which talent show helped launch the career of One Direction’s Australian member?
The X Factor
What term describes the act of stealing usernames and passwords to gain unauthorized access to accounts?
Credential theft
Australia officially became a federation in which year?
1901
What two-word phrase describes a vulnerability unknown to the software vendor?
Zero-day
Which Australian city will host the 2032 Summer Olympics?
Brisbane
What name is given to malicious code hidden within seemingly harmless files or programs?
Trojan Horse