Vocab
Geek Trivia
Lingo
Our Event
Binary & Beyond
100

A set of steps that defines how a task is performed

What is an algorithm?

100

Name of New Mexico town which was the setting for 2024 Best Picture of the Year?

What is Los Alamos, NM?

100

Name of tool to analyze network packet traffic

What is Arkime or Wireshark?
100

Name of our event/exercise this week

What is TracerFire(11)?

100

The decimal value of 2 represented in binary

What is 10?

200

A representation of an algorithm

What is a program?

200

The first digit of a DISCOVER credit card

What is 6?

200

Type of attack described yesterday when a disk is encrypted and "held hostage"

What is "ransomware"?

200

Name the type of event we are doing this week

What is CTF (or Capture the Flag)?

200

Name of notation used to represent binary bit combinations in a compressed/condensed format

What is hexadecimal?
300

Common name for malicious code

What is malware?
300

Name of the famous mathematical sequence that starts off as 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8

What is the Fibonacci sequence?

300

Two tool names presented as helping with disk forensics

What are Autopsy and Velociraptor?
300

Name of the attacked organization in this week's exercise

What is Orcko Water Authority?

300

The answer to: "1 xor 0"

What is 1?

400

Name of an operating system often used by cybersecurity folks and is available as open source

What is Linux (or *NIX)?

400

Name a phase of software development OTHER than "code"

What is "design" "requirements" "maintenance" or "test"?

400

The color of "hat" that a "good/ethical" hacker "wears"

What is white?

400

Name of Matthew's team at Sandia

What is Honey Badger?

400

Minimum required number of bits to represent decimal (base 10) value of 32

What is 6?

500

The three areas to which cybersecurity folks abbreviate as CIA

What are Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability?

500

Starting index in the C programming language

What is 0?

500

The name of the famous hacking/cybersecurity conference traditionally held in Las Vegas, Nevada in August

What is DEFCON?

500
The meaning of "velociraptor" as presented in the tool slides

What is "swift seizer"?

500

The max decimal value that can be represented with 6 binary bits

What is 63?