computer crimes

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Across
  1. 1. SOFTWARE Internet based software or programs that are used to disrupt a network
  2. 5. SOLICITING AND ABUSE Type of cyber crime wherein criminals solicit minors via chat rooms
  3. 8. VANDALISM Damaging or destroying data rather than stealing
  4. 10. HORSES malicious program that appears to be friendly, they are not technically viruses.
  5. 11. Act by the criminal who floods the bandwidth of the victim’s network.
  6. 13. refers to any crime that involves a computer/ mobile and a network
  7. 14. type of virus hides on the user’s disk and waits for a specific event to occur before running.
  8. 16. a program whose purpose is to duplicate itself.
  9. 18. The least common cybercrime
Down
  1. 2. This category of cybercrime involves one individual distributing malicious or illegal information online.
  2. 3. VIRUSES these viruses take up residence in the computer’s memory, making then hard to detect
  3. 4. VIRUS Type of virus make changes to a disk’s file system
  4. 6. Means an illegal intrusion into a computer system and/or network
  5. 7. HAT HACKERS hackers between the good and the bad guys
  6. 8. STALKING A kind of online harrassment wherein the victim is subjected to a barrage of online messages and emails.
  7. 9. DISSEMINATION- Malicious software that attches itself to other software.
  8. 12. PIRACY Theft of software through the illegal copying of genuine products.
  9. 13. TERRORISM Defined as an act of terrorism committed through the use of cyberspace
  10. 15. VIRUSES VIRUS DESIGNED TO INFECT SPECIFIC TYPE OF DOCUMENT
  11. 17. HAT HACKERS can be seen as the “good guys”