IT Quiz MES

IT-Quiz

• Which WWII technology Technology from the Nazi German's, famously decoded by British mathematician Alan Turing, has recently became a topic of payment security because it could help to create fraud-proof bank cards. What?

• Enigma Encryption

• http://anonhq.com/ is a responsible source of socio-political reality reflective news and articles. Which organisation behind this website?

• Anonymous

Name the virtual assistant used in this Amazon hardware?

• Alexa

• There was a series of coordinated attacks on American computer systems since 2003, masked by proxy, zombie computer, is considered as the largest instance of state-sponsored cyber warfare

• The series of attacks are believed by some to be the actions of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), rather than some freelance Chinese hackers.

• This has caused friction between the U.S. and Chinese governments, although with little evidence the U.S. government has blamed the Chinese government for the attacks of 2004.

• In what name federal government of the United States address this attack?

• Titan Rain

• "They're increasingly not very important,“• “Paper Tiger”• What exactly Julian Assange Referring to?

• Traditional Press/Media

• Native mobile applications are developed for a specific platform and installed on a computing device.

• Web applications are generalized for multiple platforms and not installed locally but made available over the Internet through a browser.

• But the combination of both exist with the following features…

• Can function whether or not the device is connected.

• Integration with a device’s file system. • Integration with Web-based services. • An embedded browser to improve access to

dynamic online content.• What do you call such application?

• Hybrid App

• X is the leading platform to discover innovative companies and the people behind them.

• Armed with loads of startup data, you can look up a specific company, person, investor, venture investments, acquisitions. Identify the initiative from TechCrunch network?

• CrunchBase

Identify the personality

• Peter Thiel

• KPP Nambiar

• Sanjay Viajayakumar

• Jayashankar Prasad, Startup Mission Convenor

• Pranav Mistry

• Safra Catz, Oracle

ID the logo

Identify the logo/Creators of Signal messenger apps

Identify the leading project Management Software?

Old logo of which Indian multinational information technology/outsourcing company?

MAIN ROUNDS

• C&C MDM (Command and Control Multiplexer DeMultiplexer) and ЦВМ (Центральная вычислительная машина) (central computing machine) are the built in computers in X to run the flight software.

• The C&C runs the US segment and the ЦВМ runs the Russian segment. What is X?

International Space Station

• Germany installs ground-level traffic lights for a special set of pedestrians, colloquially dubbed as ‘smombies’.

• A new traffic signal has been introduced for them. What are we talking about?

• (Image…)

• “We’re building digital tools to fight human trafficking. Basically, the purchase and commerce for human trafficking is happening online, just like everything else now, and so we’re building digital tools to fight back against it.”

• Rescued 6000 sex trafficking victims already!

• The person who made above statement has a tech connection through a 2013 film. Who/or which movie?

• Stuxnet is a 500-kilobyte computer worm, first identified in 2010, designed to target only Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that are configured to control and monitor specific industrial processes.

• Its most famous mode of attack explained in the next slide…

• First, it targeted Microsoft Windows machines and networks, repeatedly replicating itself.

• Then it sought out Siemens Step7 software, which is also Windows-based and used to program industrial control systems that operate equipment, such as centrifuges.

• Finally, it compromised the programmable logic controllers. The worm’s authors could thus spy on the industrial systems and even cause the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart, unbeknownst to the human operators at the plant.

• What was the target?

• Nuclear plants/ uranium-enrichment plants in Iran

• At the Kaspersky Security Analysts Summit held in Mexico on February 16, 2015, Kaspersky Lab announced its discovery of one of the most sophisticated cyber attack groups in the world. Ands their finding were…

1. Their loader, "Grayfish", had similarities to a previously discovered loader "Gauss" from another attack series.

2. They used two zero-day attacks later used in Stuxnet.-------------------------------------------------------------------------• Researchers concluded that "the similar type of usage of both exploits

together in different computer worms, at around the same time, indicates that this attack group group and the Stuxnet developers are either the same or working closely together. Name the attack group?

• Equation Group

Given are the two definitions for same thing in the context of information security. Give me the popular phrase hacking communities usually used to explain following set of behavior?

• The use of centralized planning in an attempt to manage social change and regulate the future development and behaviour of a society.

• The use of deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes

• Social Engineering

If you can connect a recent statement from Elon Musk and the cartoon with the screenshot in the next slide…

What am I talking about?

• "X comes from the marriage of the excitement of the internet with the simplicity of Macintosh. Even though this is a full-blooded Macintosh, we are targeting this for the number one use that consumers tell us they want a computer for, which is to get on the internet - simply and fast. X means some other things to us. We are a personal computer company always. Product is born to network, it also is a beautiful standalone product“.

• What exactly Steve Jobs trying to explain here?

• “In 1998, after having been swept up into an improbable romance, I was then swept up into the eye of a political, legal and media maelstrom like we had never seen before. Remember, just a few years earlier, news was consumed from just three places reading a news paper or magazine, listening to the video or watching television. but that wasn't my fate! Instead, this scandal brought to you by digital revolution!

• That meant we could access all the information we wanted, when we wanted it, anytime, anywhere! And when the story broke in January 1998, it broke online. It was the first time the traditional news was usurped by the internet for a major story! When this happened to me 17 years ago there was no name for it now we call it cyber bullying or online harassment”

• -Whose statement am I referring here?

• With a tagline ‘Build, Ship, Run’, Docker is the world’s leading software ____X_____ platform.

• It wrap up a piece of software in a complete file system that contains everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries – anything you can install on a server. This guarantees that it will always run the same, regardless of the environment it is running in.

• Identify the missing term X

• Containerization/Container

• They gained prominence in the Indian smartphone market by partnering with brands like OnePlus and Micromax subsidiary Yu. A recent statement appeared in their blog shown below

• ‘As part of the ongoing consolidation of X, all services and X-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16. The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build X personally.’

• What is X?

• Cyanogen

• “In 2011, Manipal Global Education - Chairman Mohandas Pai, asked someone the exact valuation of his company, which at that time became quite popular among college students in South India.

• The founder of that company replied an exaggerated value of Rs.200Crore against the actual valuation somewhere close to 40Cr. Mr. Pai became really excited over the unconvincing figure later managed to invest in the venture and exited out of the business with a four times return than the promised value of three times.”

• Story of which personality am I talking about?

• In November 2015, this IAS officer was posted in Trivandrum as Survey Director. He initiated a project with the intention of bringing places of public interest onto the online platform. Titled the ‘Map My Home Project’, it was implemented with the participation of over 100 students from multiple colleges in the city.

• Three months and over 1500 mapped-locations later, the Govt. of Kerala issued an order recommending the state wide implementation of this project.

• His latest IT initiatives are SpeedSpot and TriD.• Images follow…

ID the personality

Mir Muhammed Ali, District Collector, Kannur

Identify the missing personality at the centre?

Donald Trump’s Tech meeting Dec 15th