Cyber Security Crossword
Across
- 1. Secret phrase that shouldn't be "123456"
- 3. Test to prove you're human, often involving traffic lights
- 5. Fake email scheme that sounds like an aquatic activity
- 7. Army of zombie computers controlled by cybercriminals
- 8. Malicious program named after an ancient Greek trick
- 9. Sneaky software that watches your every click
- 11. Secret entrance that bypasses normal security
- 12. When unauthorized users break through digital defenses
- 17. Three letters for a tunnel that hides your internet traffic
- 18. Scrambling data like eggs, but harder to unscramble
- 21. Small file that remembers you, not made of chocolate chips
- 22. Attack that floods a website like a thousand people calling at once
- 23. Umbrella term for software with bad intentions
- 24. Digital bouncer that decides who gets into the network party
- 25. Alan who cracked codes and fathered computer science
Down
- 2. Process of proving you are who you claim to be online
- 4. Sweet trap designed to catch cyber attackers
- 6. Digital lock-picker, sometimes wearing a white or black hat
- 10. Software band-aid that fixes security holes
- 13. Digital kidnapper that holds files hostage for money
- 14. Spreads from computer to computer like its biological namesake
- 15. Pretending to be someone else online, like digital dress-up
- 16. Using your body parts as passwords
- 19. Self-replicating pest that doesn't need a host file
- 20. Silent recorder of every button you press