FUNDAMENTALS
Crimes have become more and more sophisticated in recent years – keeping pace with the age of the internet and mobile devices. Here’s the low down on the new age crimes.
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NEW AGE CRIMES
1. In January 2007, Jeffrey Brett Goodin became the first person in United States to be convicted of a crime that has spread its tentacles across the world. Which crime?
2. The largest leaked password collection had 8.4 billion entries of passwords and took place in 2021. This breach has been given a name inspired by another breach in 2009. What?
3. Have you ever been the target of a 419 scam. It involves an email where a person is asked for money to help secure the release of a large sum of money in exchange for a small percentage. Question is why is it called 419 scam?
4. Mobile phone cloning is commonplace. But what is car cloning also known is VIN cloning?
5. There are cases galore where some people use fraudulent means to assume ownership of a website domain. What is this tech age criminal practice called?
6. In the world of computer crime, what is a salami attack or Salami slicing?
7. Some of the biggest financial frauds have been Ponzi schemes. This scheme takes its name from an early 20th century scamster named Charles Ponzi. Question is what is the name of Charles Ponzi’s autobiography?
8. The largest ever cybertheft took place in 2016 when $101 million
was transferred by North Korean hackers. The central bank of which country was victim of this attack?
ANYTHING GOES
1. What starts from Thokur in Karnataka stretches for 756 kilometres and ends at Roha in Maharashtra? (Abin KI, Ernakulam)
2. The Namibian cricket team made history when they beat much fancies Netherlands and Ireland to advance to Super 12 of the T20 World Cup recently. By what nickname is the team known? (Miracle S, Secunderabad)
3. This tennis tournament is the best attended outside of the Grand Slams.
It is often called the Fifth Grand Slam or the Grand Slam of the West. This is the first tournament to use purple interior for the court providing 180 degree contrast to the yellow tennis ball. The Williams Sisters boycotted this tournament from 2001-14 citing racial slur. Name the Tournament?(Dr. Kota Tirupataiah, Hyderabad)
4. In 1937, Jawaharlal Nehru started Associated Journals Ltd with 5,000 other freedom fighters as its shareholders. What did this company publish?(Somen Sengupta, Kolkata)
5. The samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi is Rajghat, where is the Samadhi of Kasturba Gandhi?(Mohammed Soulath, Mumbai)
6. In almost 150 years of Test cricket , there have been only six instances of a bowler taking four wickets in an over in a Test match . Maurice Allom from England was the first bowler to achieve this against New Zealand in the 1929-30 series . When was the last time that this was achieved by a bowler in a test match ?(B.K. Harinath, Mysuru)
7. The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP26, was held at Glasgow this year. What does COP stand for? (Bikram Keshari Jena, Nayagarh)
8. Researchers long believed that there were, in principle, just two types of catalysts available to build molecules: metals and enzymes. Benjamin List and David MacMillan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 because in 2000 they, independent of each other, developed a third type of catalysis. What is it called? (Nivriti Sreelekha, Secunderabad)