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The acronym USB stands for the following.

What is Universal Serial Bus?

100

The acronym SSD stands for the following.

What is Solid State Drive?

100

The acronym P2P as far as technology is concerned stands for the following.

What is Peer-To-Peer?

100

The acronym HTML stands for the following.

What is Hyper Text Markup Language?

100

This crypto-processor, implemented as a module for a discrete computer platform, such as a desktop computer, mobile device, or embedded system, securely stores encryption keys, hashed passwords, and other user and platform identification information.

What is a Trusted Platform Module?

200

The acronym CPU stands for the following.

What is Central Processing Unit?

200

The acronym RAM stands for the following.

What is Random Access Memory?

200

The acronym PaaS stands for the following.

What is Platform as a Service?

200

The acronym SMTP stands for the following.

What is Simple Mail Transfer Protocol?

200

This is a CPU extension that is able to protect data stored in system memory so that an untrusted process cannot read it. It is designed so that even processes with root or system privileges cannot access it without authorization, and is locked to a list of one or more digitally signed processes.

What is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) Secure Enclave?

300

** Daily triple **

The acronym POODLE stands for this.

What is Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption?

300

The acronym DVI stands for the following.

What is Digital Visual Interface?

300

The acronym AES stands for the following.

What is Advanced Encryption Standard?

300

The acronym POP3 stands for the following.

What is Post Office Protocol Version 3?

300

In 2014, this vulnerability affected all Unix-based systems, including macOS, allowing attackers to potentially gain control over a system due to a flaw in the Bash shell. Though it originated from a component in Unix systems, its impact was felt in macOS due to its Unix-based architecture.

What is Shellshock?

400

The acronym POST stands for the following.

What is Power-On Self-Test?

400

The acronym HDMI stands for the following.

What is High-Definition Multimedia Interface?

400

*Daily Double*

The acronym BEAST stands for this.

What is Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS?

400

The acronym IMAP stands for the following.

What is Internet Message Access Protocol?

400

This vulnerability was discovered in 2009 in VMware's ESX Server, a popular enterprise-level virtualization platform. It existed in the virtual machine display function and allowed a guest operating system to execute code on the host operating system.

What is Cloudburst?

500

The acronym SMART stands for the following.

What is Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology?

500

The term NAND is short for the following. (Hint: it's not an acronym)

What is "NOT AND"? (A boolean operator and logic gate, which describes how it works)

500

The acronym RADIUS stands for the following.

What is Remote Authentication Dial In User Service?

500

The acronym TFTP stands for the following.

What is Trivial File Transfer Protocol?

500

This vulnerability, discovered in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware in 2019, enabled an attacker to persist on a system even after a complete hard drive replacement or OS re-installation.

What is LoJax?