Cyber Terms
Across
- 1. malware that encrypts your files until you pay a fee
- 8. Sending fake emails to get you to click on a link
- 10. Changing your IP or Mac address to appear from a different machine
- 12. (2wds) A misleading computer program that allows a hacker into your system
- 13. A means of attack on a computer system
- 14. a wide variety of bad software used to infect and/or damage a system
- 15. Coding used to protect your information from hackers
- 16. a group of applications that instruct a computer to carry out a task
- 17. Tricked into clicking on wrong object on a web page
- 18. Malware that can reproduce itself for the purposes of spreading itself to other computers in the network
Down
- 2. Process of identifying a user's identity
- 3. Software or Hardware used to keep intruders out
- 4. computers and peripherals connected as on entity
- 5. Malware that snoops on you
- 6. Malware which changes, corrupts, or destroys information, and then spreads to other systems
- 7. An audio or video that has been changed to make it seem authentic
- 9. network of infected computers working together
- 11. Multiple computers connected together to share resources