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CSAW - CyberSecurity Competition 2012
DHS Security Quiz Tournament
Event FAQ
Rules/Format
- There are qualifying rounds and a final round. The top two teams of each qualifying round competes in the final round.
- All questions have short answers
- Quiz Moderator asks 10-12 questions at each round
- Every team tries to answer the questions simultaneously
- For each question, teams have 30 seconds to write down their answer on a sheet of paper
- After 30 seconds, teams show their answers to the Quiz Moderator
- Teams earn 1 point for each of their correct answer
- At the end of each round, teams are ranked according to their points
- The Polytechnic Institute of NYU reserves the right to adapt these rules as needed prior to the contest
Sample Questions
TOPIC |
QUESTION | |
| Hardware | There was a vulnerability where a Firewire device, when plugged in, can overwrite anywhere in memory. What hardware protocol caused this? | DMA or Direct Memory Access |
| Digital Forensics | What is the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination called? | Steganography |
| History, Personality & Literature | What was the name of the 1983 movie where Mathew Broderick played a young hacker who gained access to a government nuclear war simulator? | Wargames |
| System/Network Admin | In Microsoft Internet Explorer, which file stores information about a user’s browsing history such as URLs? | the index.dat file |
| Cryptography | In practical cryptography, what is the name of the functions that are embodied in a physical structure, that is easy to evaluate but hard to characterize. | PUF or Physical Unclonable Function |