Cybersecurity
Illinois Tech
Chicago
WiCyS
Cybersecurity
100

What is the cyberattack in which targets are contacted through email and lured into providing sensitive information?

Phishing attack

100

Who is the current President of the University?

Alan Cramb

100

Who is the current mayor of Chicago?

Lori Lightfoot

100

What does WiCyS stand for?

Women in Cybersecurity

100

What is the software designed to protect computer virus infection?

Anti-virus

200

What does DDoS stand for?

Distributed Denial of Service

200

When was Illinois Tech founded?

1890

200

What is the lake that Lake Shore Drive borders?

Lake Michigan

200

Where is the WiCyS 2021 Conference going to take place?

Denver, Colorado

200

What is the network that is used for many types of criminal activity and can be accessed using the TOR browser?

Dark Web

300

What is not your username; not your name, not your friend's name, not your date of birth, and not a dictionary word?

Strong Password

300

Who designed the Mies Campus?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

300

What are Chicago’s two MLB baseball teams?

White Sox and the Cubs

300

Who is the WiCyS Founder?

Ambareen Siraj

300

What does OSINT stand for?

Open Source Intelligence

400

What is the practice and study of techniques for securing communications to protect sensitive data from adversaries?

Cryptography

400

How many campuses do we have? Bonus points if you can name them all!

4 (Bonus: Mies (Main) Campus, Chicago Conviser Law Center (Chicago-Kent College of Law, Stuart School of Business), Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus (College of Computing), Moffett Campus (Institute for Food Safety and Health)

400

Chicago is composed of how many community areas?

77

400

What year was WiCyS founded?

2012

400

What is the software that makes it possible to use one computer operating system on a computer running another operating system?

Virtual Machine (VM)

500

What is a simulated cyberattack on a system to evaluate the system’s security?

Penetration test

500

What is the Illinois Tech fight song?

"E to the DY DX E to X DX secant, cosine, tangent, sine 3.1491459 I, Pi the cube root of three fight em fight em IIT"

500

The Art Institute of Chicago is guarded by what two beasts? (Bronze ones not real ones!)

Lions

500

Who are WiCyS' founding (corporate) partners?

Facebook, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks

500

What is self-replicating malware that duplicates itself to spread to new computers?

Worm