Internet/Security
Across
- 4. A broad term that describes any pogram that is intended to cause harm or convey information to others without the owner's permission
- 5. password A string of at least characters of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
- 6. Hardware or software that prevents other computers on the Internet from accessing a computer .
- 7. Steps a computer owner takes to prevent unauthorized use of or damage to a computer
- 10. filter A feature in internet explorer 8 that helps detect phishing websites
- 12. browsing Allows you to open more than one web page at a time.
- 15. To break into a DNS server and redirect any attempts to access a particular Web siste to a spoofed site
- 16. To create a Web site that looks exactly like another legitimate site on the Web but steals the information people enter
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- 1. filtering Featured in internet explorer that helps you prevent website or third party developers from collecting information about the site you visit.
- 2. A descriptive word or phrase you enter to obtain a list of results that include that word or phrase
- 3. A software program that lets you open and display web pages.
- 4. software Software that detecs and removes spyware
- 8. An illicit activity used by hackers to trick computer users to reveal personal or financial information through an e-mail or website.
- 9. rus software Software that searches excutable files for the sequences of commands
- 11. Software that track a computer user's Internet usage and sends this data back to the company or person that created it
- 13. harmful program that instructs a computer to perform destructive activities, such as erasing a disk drive.
- 14. certificate Verifies the identity of a person or indicates the security of a website
- 15. Window that opens on your screen as you visit websites, generally to advertise products you may or may not want