Cybersecurity Awareness Month Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. Software designed with intent to harm
- 4. Overloads a network to kill it
- 5. Secretly collects private info
- 7. Way to send messages over internet
- 10. Intrusively displays unwanted advertisements
- 11. Identity to access a website
- 12. Scrambles info to protect it
- 14. Detects, prevents, and removes malware
- 16. Attempt by Hackers to compromise data
- 19. Locks you out system until paid
- 20. A trick to get private info
Down
- 1. Combination of stuff for security
- 2. Disguises as legitimate software but bad
- 6. Process to verify someone's identity
- 8. Barrier between a trusted network
- 9. Programs that attach and spread file
- 13. A software update to fix vulnerabilities
- 15. Bad guy who steals info
- 17. Self replicating program that spreads independently
- 18. Network of malware infected computers