Cyber Security Terms
Across
- 2. Spam is the name commonly given to unsolicited emails.
- 3. Code left by a person thats hidden that can be used to shut down software
- 7. Prevents Virus
- 8. A form of malware used by hackers to spy on you and your computer activities.
- 10. It is a group of applications that instruct a computer to carry out a task
- 13. A combination of the words “robot” and “network”
- 15. A series of computers and associated peripherals (routers, printers, scanners), that are all connected as one entity.
- 16. A means of attack on a computer system, either a series of commands, malicious software, or piece of infected data.
- 17. Process of verifying your not a bot
- 19. when a hacker changes the IP address of an email so that it seems to come from a trusted source.
Down
- 1. Encryption is a process of maintaining data confidentiality
- 4. providing on-demand services over the internet.
- 5. Malware which changes, corrupts, or destroys information, and is then passed on to other systems,
- 6. a wide variety of bad software used to infect and/or damage a system
- 9. The process of identifying a user’s identity, making sure that they can have access to the system and/or files.
- 11. Malware that can reproduce itself for the purposes of spreading itself to other computers in the network.
- 12. Any technology, be it software or hardware, used to keep intruders out.
- 14. Unprocessed Information
- 18. a method of connecting a series of computers and devices in a private encrypted network,