CyberSecurity Week 2026

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Across
  1. 4. An employee who emails customer data to their personal email account so they could work from home is a ____ insider
  2. 5. Trojan malware is similar to a ___ because it requires user action to execute an attack
  3. 6. PINs and passwords should be ___ to each account
  4. 7. An attacker seeking to gain access to a restricted area without being noticed is often called ___
  5. 8. This includes usernames, biometric passwords, and PINs that grant access to systems and accounts
  6. 11. The difference between being malicious and unintentional (accidental or negligent) insider threats centers around ___
  7. 13. The potential of an insider to use their authorized access or understanding of an organization to harm that organization is called an ___
  8. 14. Some phishing sites might ___ to a legitimate site after stealing your information
  9. 15. Worms and viruses are both malware. Howoever, unlike viruses, worms are a type of malware that ___ itself and does not need to attack itself to a software program to cause damage.
  10. 16. An employee who makes a copy of proprietary customer data to take with them to a competitive company is a ___ insider
  11. 18. A data-entry phishing email will often urge you to click on a malicious ____
  12. 21. Attackers will register a domain similar to an official one and hope that a target user does not notice the ___
  13. 24. Social engineers are successful if they get you to ___ in the way theat they want
  14. 26. Being an insider means that you are ___ with safeguarding your company's intellectual property, data, and finances
  15. 28. External threat actors might try ___ to get an insider to cause harm to an organization
  16. 29. Malicious software used to compromise devices, data, and systems
  17. 30. A text replacement feature that could alter the intended message or recipient
  18. 32. Sometimes called a three-random-words strategy for memorable logins
  19. 34. Change these to prevent scammers from accessing your account
  20. 36. Pixelated images and odd designs can be clues that you're visiting a ___ website
Down
  1. 1. Social engineering is where the attackers ___ a known contact to make the target believe the request is legitimate
  2. 2. Who you should contact if you may have revealed banking information
  3. 3. One way to protect yourself from malware is to avoid suspicious emails, links and ___
  4. 9. Be sure to look for ____ in a website's appearance
  5. 10. A cyberattack leveraging email that attempts to fraudulently obtain usernames/passwords
  6. 12. Monitor potentially affected accounts for signs of ___ ___
  7. 17. If an attacker steals your credentials, they might try to ___ your accounts that share those same credentials/passwords
  8. 19. Social engineers use ___ manipulation tactics to prompt you to take unsafe actions
  9. 20. If you think you've fallen for a phishing scam, you should ___ it
  10. 22. Current or former employees, contractors, or business partners can all be considered ___
  11. 23. Viruses are a type of malware that often tak the form of a piece of ___ inserted in to an application, program, or system and require user action to be deployed
  12. 25. An organization's security tools ___ block all malware attacks
  13. 27. An incident where confidential, sensitive, or protected information (like credentials) have been accessed or disclosed to an unauthorized person
  14. 31. Sensitive information should never be shared via ___
  15. 33. An attacker is ___ when they claim to be a new employee who has forgotten their access badge and relies o your emotional response to hold open a secure door for them
  16. 35. You should be ___ if a website asks you to log in multiple times