Q 01/05

Which file-sharing site did the FBI shut in 2012 as New Zealand police raided Kim Dotcom's mansion?

A) LimeWire

B) RapidShare

C) Megaupload

D) KickassTorrents

Answer · why

C) Megaupload

Megaupload was accused of operating as a business dedicated to copyright infringement. Its German-born founder, born Kim Schmitz, was arrested at a le...

Q 02/05

Where was Ross Ulbricht sitting when the FBI arrested him for running the Silk Road drug market?

A) A hotel lobby

B) An airport lounge

C) A university lab

D) A public library

Answer · why

D) A public library

A public library in San Francisco was where the FBI pounced, after two agents posed as quarrelling lovers to distract him. A third grabbed the open la...

Q 03/05

The Mirai botnet that took down major websites in 2016 was first aimed at servers for which game?

A) RuneScape

B) Minecraft

C) Counter-Strike

D) Team Fortress 2

Answer · why

B) Minecraft

Minecraft servers were the first targets, because Mirai's authors were running a protection racket against their hosts. The botnet itself was built fr...

Q 04/05

Which unreleased game did a teenage Lapsus$ hacker leak using an Amazon Fire Stick in a hotel room?

A) Grand Theft Auto VI

B) The Elder Scrolls VI

C) Half-Life 3

D) BioShock 4

Answer · why

A) Grand Theft Auto VI

Grand Theft Auto VI clips spread online in 2022 after Arion Kurtaj broke into Rockstar with the Fire Stick, a hotel TV and a phone. He was on bail at ...

Q 05/05

The 1989 AIDS Trojan, the first documented ransomware, reached its victims through the post on what?

A) Floppy disks

B) Cassette tapes

C) Punched cards

D) CD-ROMs

Answer · why

A) Floppy disks

Floppy disks labelled as AIDS information were mailed out by biologist Joseph Popp. After 90 start-ups the program scrambled file names and demanded $...