# Start Your Cybersecurity Journey: Search Skills (TryHackMe)

In this article, I will write a write-up for Search Skills that covers the Evaluation of Search Results, Search Engines, Specialized Search Engines, Vulnerabilities and Exploits, Technical Documentation, and Social Media.

1. What do you call a cryptographic method or product considered bogus or fraudulent? `snake oil`
    
2. What is the name of the command replacing `netstat` in Linux systems? `ss`
    
3. How would you limit your Google search to PDF files containing the terms **cyber warfare report**? `filetype:pdf cyber warfare report`
    
4. What phrase does the Linux command `ss` stand for? `socket statistics`
    
5. What is the top country with **lighttpd** servers? `United States`
    
6. What does BitDefenderFalx detect the file with the hash `2de70ca737c1f4602517c555ddd54165432cf231ffc0e21fb2e23b9dd14e7fb4` as? `Android.Riskware.Agent.LHH`
    

visit [VirusTotal](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/search) to search for the file with this given hash then you’ll see the detection for BitDefenderFalx

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1730024761706/906b6d76-fc36-43de-80e6-8c180911f636.png align="center")

7. What does the Linux command `cat` stand for? `concatenate`
    
8. What is the `netstat` parameter in MS Windows that displays the executable associated with each active connection and listening port? `-b`
    
9. You are hired to evaluate the security of a particular company. What is a popular social media website you would use to learn about the technical background of one of their employees? `LinkedIn`
    
10. Continuing with the previous scenario, you are trying to find the answer to the secret question, “Which school did you go to as a child?”. What social media website would you consider checking to find the answer to such secret questions? `Facebook`
    

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