Cyber Quest

Questions

1. In hacker lingo, what is Back Door-G?

2. In December 1999, which media giant created history by firing 23 employees for misuse of e-mail?

3. What is the name of the webcam that lets one see what's going on in someone's pants 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?

4. Of which telecom equipment maker is Kurt Hellstrom the CEO?

5. The Bank of America paid about $3 million to Marcelo Siero to acquire what domain name?

6. What are ''hierarchical file systems''?

7. Name the ISP held by the combine of Wipro and ICICI.

8. Trivia. What is this smiley ;-) (made up of semi-colon, hyphen and close bracket) called?

9. Expand ANNA as in the name of the high-programming language.

10. Who developed the PnP (plug and play) technology?

V.V. Ramanan

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Answers

1. It's a remote-control hack tool, spread as an e-mail attachment, to infiltrate the victims' hard disk.

2. The New York Times

3. Pantscam

4. Ericsson

5. Loans.com

6. They are systems that are pyramidal in shape, with each row of objects linked to objects directly beneath it.

7. Netcracker

8. Winkey

9. Annotated Ada

10. Intel and Microsoft

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