Cyber Terms

3. is any event or action that could cause a loss or damage to computer hardware, software, data, or information
7. politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional warfare
8. a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data in such a way that it can get control and do its chosen form of damage
9. Computer crime refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target. Netcrime refers to criminal exploitation of the Internet.
10. is a classification of malware specifically designed to steal personal information (identity theft), commit a crime to or perform some other illegal activity on a hacked computer.

1. is often, but not always, a juvenile hacker; an attacker who uses scripts or programs developed by more sophisticated hackers or crackers
2. a piece of code that is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data
3. is an individual or group who uses email as an offensive force. The group or individual usually sends a company a threatening email stating that they have received confidential information about their company and will exploit a security leak or launch an attack that will harm
4. is the use of Internet based attacks in terrorist activities, including acts of deliberate, large-scale disruption of computer networks
5. a set of software tools that enable an unauthorized user to gain control of a computer system without being detected
6. is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers
7. crime conducted via the Internet or some other computer network.
11. software that is intended to damage or disable computers and compute