Web Safety Terms and Definitions

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Across
  1. 2. Software designed to protect computers from viruses.
  2. 5. A program designed to prevent, detect, search and remove viruses and other types of malware from the computers drive.
  3. 7. A relationship between two things or situations, especially where one thing affects the other.
  4. 9. A communication method/mailing method that uses electronic devices to deliver messages across computer networks
  5. 10. A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
  6. 12. The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
  7. 13. A dishonest scheme; a fraud.
  8. 15. Collection of computers controlled by users other than their owners to perform automated tasks over the Internet.
  9. 16. connected to, served by, or available through a system and especially a computer or telecommunications system .
  10. 17. Ownership of any creative work or invention.
  11. 20. A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.
  12. 21. The act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally.
  13. 23. exception to copyright infringement.
  14. 24. The external and internal devices and equipment that enable you to perform major functions such as input, output, storage, communication, processing, and more.
  15. 27. The sending of sexually explicit messages or images by cell phone.
  16. 28. The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
Down
  1. 1. A group of two or more computers or other electronic devices that are interconnected for the purpose of exchanging data and sharing resources.
  2. 3. bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established.
  3. 4. The use and or distribution of copyrighted computer software in violation of the copyright laws or applicable license restrictions.
  4. 6. The programs and other operating information used by a computer.
  5. 8. The fraudulent acquisition and use of a person's private identifying information, usually for financial gain.
  6. 11. The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
  7. 14. Information such as facts and numbers used to analyze something or make decisions or information in a form that can be processed by a computer.
  8. 18. The use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
  9. 19. A secret word or phrase that must be used to gain admission to something.
  10. 22. An electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program.
  11. 25. Computer device which forwards data packets from one network to another .
  12. 26. A computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user.