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Round up your friends and play a live Hackers & Security trivia round right now. 36 questions in the bank, shuffled fresh every game. One person starts a room, everyone else joins with a 4 letter code from any phone or laptop. No signup, no app, no setup, and it is free for up to 20 players.

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  1. 01What is phishing?
  2. 02Which of these makes a password strongest?
  3. 03What does 2FA stand for?
  4. 04What is the job of a firewall?
  5. 05What does ransomware do?
  6. 06Antivirus software is designed to do what?
  7. 07Trojan horse malware is named after a trick from which tradition?
  8. 08Which password has topped the most-leaked lists for years?
  9. 09What is a white hat hacker?
  10. 10WannaCry, which hit hospitals and companies worldwide in 2017, was what kind of attack?
  11. 11What does VPN stand for?
  12. 12Kevin Mitnick, once the world's most wanted hacker, later became what?
  13. 13A DDoS attack takes a website down by doing what?
  14. 14Social engineering attacks primarily exploit what?
  15. 15The Morris Worm, one of the first internet worms, spread in which year?
  16. 16The Stuxnet worm was designed to sabotage what?
  17. 17During World War II, German Enigma messages were cracked at which British site?
  18. 18A zero-day vulnerability is dangerous because of what?

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