Across
- 2. Small files stored on a users device that track browsing activity and preferences across visits to a website.
- 3. Presenting someone elses work as your own without permission or credit.
- 5. A type of malware that can copy itself and spread to other programs or computers, often causing damage.
- 7. A method for verifying that a user is who they claim to be before granting access to a system or information.
- 11. A set of public copyright licenses that let creators allow others to share, use, or build on their work under specified conditions.
- 13. Research or other content made freely available online without copyright or licensing restrictions on use.
- 15. A technique that attempts to trick a user into providing personal information, which can then be used to access sensitive online resources, such as bank accounts and emails.
- 16. Differing access to computing devices and the Internet based on socioeconomic, geographic, or demographic factors.
- 17. A process that reverses encryption, taking a secret message and reproducing the original plain text.
- 18. Software intended to damage a computing system or to take partial control over its operation.
- 19. The practice of obtaining input or information from a large number of people via the Internet.
- 20. A system that requires at least two steps to unlock protected information; each step adds a new layer of security that must be broken to gain unauthorized access.
- 22. A creative work or invention that legally belongs to its creator or an organization, which may be protected by copyright, patent, or trademark.
- 23. A process of encoding messages to keep them secret, so only authorized parties can read it.
- 24. Systematic errors or unfairness in a computing innovation, often stemming from biased data or algorithm design, that can produce unfair outcomes for certain groups.
- 25. Scientific research carried out in whole or in part by members of the public who contribute data using their own computing devices.
- 26. An encryption method that uses a public key to encrypt a message and a different, private key to decrypt it.
Down
- 1. The use of a program to record every keystroke made by a computer user in order to gain fraudulent access to passwords and other confidential information.
- 2. An organization trusted to issue digital certificates that verify the ownership of encryption keys.
- 4. A wireless access point that gives unauthorized access to secure networks.
- 6. A computing technique in which systems improve at a task by learning patterns from data rather than being explicitly programmed for every case.
- 8. An encryption method that uses the same key for both encrypting and decrypting a message.
- 9. Analyzing large data sets to find patterns, trends, or relationships that might not otherwise be obvious.
- 10. Information about a person that can be used, on its own or with other information, to identify that specific individual, such as their age, address, or Social Security number.
- 12. A legal protection giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, and display it.
- 14. A credential, issued by a certificate authority, that verifies the identity behind an encryption key used in secure communication.
- 21. Software whose source code is freely available for anyone to view, use, and modify.