Geography
What is the capital of the United States?
Washington D.C.
What term describes a system that controls network traffic based on security rules?
Firewall
What is the most famous fast food chain in the US known for its golden arches?
McDonalds
What type of attack floods a server to make it unavailable?
Denial of Service (DoS) attack
Which is the largest state by area?
Alaska
What single word describes the act of tricking someone into revealing personal information?
Phishing
Which city in the US is famous for its popular film industry?
Los Angeles
What is social engineering in cyber attacks?
Human manipulation for data/access.
Which state is known as the „Sunshine State“?
Florida
What single word describes the process of converting data into a secret code?
Encryption
How many stripes are on the American flag and what do they stand for?
13,
the 13 original colonies
What is a botnet?
Network of infected computers.
Name one of the Great Lakes.
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario
Name the three components of the CIA Triad
Which sport is often called „America‘s pastime“?
Baseball
What term describes the act of stealing usernames and passwords to gain unauthorized access to accounts?
Credential theft
Which river is the longest in the US?
What two-word phrase describes a vulnerability unknown to the software vendor?
Zero-day
What is the name of the holiday celebrated on July 4th in the US?
Independence Day
What name is given to malicious code hidden within seemingly harmless files or programs?
Trojan Horse