Cybersecurity Events
This hack was successful through its use of the HVAC system?
What is the 2013 Target Breach?
2012
What is year was WiCyS founded?
On November 10, 1903, she was granted a patent for an automatic car window cleaning device now known as the “windshield wiper”.
Who is Mary Anderson?
Now a trusted white hat hacker, this man is possibly the most wanted cybercriminal of all time.
Who is Kevin Mitneck?
This cyber attack was the first Denial-of-Service Attack.
What is the Morris Worm?
Build a strong gender-diverse cybersecurity workforce by facilitating recruitment, retention & advancement for women in the field.
What is the WiCyS mission?
This woman and her husband began “smashing” codes in 1917 for the Allies in WWI and continued through WWII
Who is Elizabeth Smith Friedman.
Considered by some to be the first “computer programmer” this person worked with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This took place in 1834 long before the internet was invented.
What is the first cybercrime?
Nashville, TN
Where will WiCyS 2024 be held?
Credited with introducing the word bug when a moth was found stuck a machine relay.
Who is Grace Hopper?
Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
In June 1903, just before a public demonstration of Guglielmo Marconi’s invention - a secure wireless telegraph, the machine suddenly began tapping out ‘Rats’.
What is the first hack to highlight a security flaw?
University of Denver academic areas that could have WiCyS members.
What is information & communication technologies, computer science, psychology, law, anthropology, accounting, communication arts, economics, management, and so many more?
She is best known for designing the software for the LINC, one of the earliest systems of an interactive personal computer.
Who is Mary Wilkes?
He used hacking to save the lives of French Jews in the early 1940s.
Who is René Carmille?