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Cyber security quiz – deep questions with explained answers

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Who Knows Their Stuff

One row per round. Anonymous entries carry a handle rather than a name – nobody is named who did not ask to be, and you can turn that on or off before you play.

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  1. 1 Anonymous Bjørn Offence Valkyrie 7,444 11/15 · 73%
  2. 2 Anonymous Falk Ship it safely Valkyrie 5,527 10/15 · 67%
  3. 3 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Circuit Breaker Valkyrie 5,140 8/20 · 40%
  4. 4 Anonymous Ravn Keys and handshakes Valkyrie 4,840 9/12 · 75%
  5. 5 bash THUGS(red) Nightmare Valkyrie 4,767 6/10 · 60%
  6. 6 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) The first hour Valkyrie 4,693 9/15 · 60%
  7. 7 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) The first hour Valkyrie 4,637 8/15 · 53%
  8. 8 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Quickfire Valkyrie 4,326 7/7 · 100%
  9. 9 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Danish & EU Valkyrie 4,205 8/8 · 100%
  10. 10 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Danish & EU Valkyrie 3,908 7/8 · 88%
  11. 11 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Nightmare Valkyrie 3,875 6/10 · 60%
  12. 12 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Rack Monkey Valkyrie 3,819 7/15 · 47%
  13. 13 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Offence Valkyrie 3,656 6/15 · 40%
  14. 14 bash THUGS(red) Malware Valkyrie 3,329 5/9 · 56%
  15. 15 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Rack Monkey Valkyrie 3,080 5/15 · 33%
  16. 16 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Danish & EU Wizard 2,873 6/8 · 75%
  17. 17 bash THUGS(red) Lore Wizard 2,736 6/10 · 60%
  18. 18 Anonymous Hval Quickfire Wizard 2,613 5/7 · 71%
  19. 19 B3sk4r Quickfire Wizard 2,280 5/7 · 71%
  20. 20 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) The full round Wizard 2,274 4/12 · 33%
  21. 21 Anonymous Ørn Quickfire Threat Hunter 2,112 3/7 · 43%
  22. 22 Anonymous Ørn Quickfire Threat Hunter 1,708 4/7 · 57%
  23. 23 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Quickfire Threat Hunter 1,561 2/7 · 29%
  24. 24 Kawaiipantsu THUGS(red) Quickfire Operator 1,465 3/7 · 43%
  25. 25 Anonymous Sæl Quickfire Analyst 744 1/7 · 14%

Ranks

  1. The Script Kiddie coin Script Kiddie 0+ You have read the blog post. Now read the RFC.
  2. The Analyst coin Analyst 400+ Solid ground. The interesting part starts here.
  3. The Operator coin Operator 900+ You have done this for real, and it shows.
  4. The Threat Hunter coin Threat Hunter 1,500+ You know where the bodies are buried.
  5. The Wizard coin Wizard 2,200+ Uncomfortably good. Who hurt you?
  6. The Valkyrie coin Valkyrie 3,000+ Choosing who falls. Welcome to the gates.

Most-missed questions

Percentage of players who get these right. No spoilers.

  • 0% GRC & compliance An auditor asks how you know your audit logs have not been tampered with by an administrato…
  • 0% Developer Why can this validation regex hang the process on a crafted input?
  • 20% Danish & EU You are parsing a Danish company page and find the eight-digit run 12345678. Which of these…
  • 25% Lore Put these events in chronological order, earliest first.
  • 25% Analysis Which factors make attribution to a named threat actor unreliable in most investigations?
  • 33% Malware Which characteristics help identify beaconing C2 traffic in network telemetry?
  • 50% Danish & EU Under GDPR Article 33, when must a controller notify the supervisory authority of a persona…
  • 50% Network What makes a protocol useful for a reflection-amplification DDoS?

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