Cyber Security Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Spam is the name commonly given to unsolicited emails.
  2. 3. Code left by a person thats hidden that can be used to shut down software
  3. 7. Prevents Virus
  4. 8. A form of malware used by hackers to spy on you and your computer activities.
  5. 10. It is a group of applications that instruct a computer to carry out a task
  6. 13. A combination of the words “robot” and “network”
  7. 15. A series of computers and associated peripherals (routers, printers, scanners), that are all connected as one entity.
  8. 16. A means of attack on a computer system, either a series of commands, malicious software, or piece of infected data.
  9. 17. Process of verifying your not a bot
  10. 19. when a hacker changes the IP address of an email so that it seems to come from a trusted source.
Down
  1. 1. Encryption is a process of maintaining data confidentiality
  2. 4. providing on-demand services over the internet.
  3. 5. Malware which changes, corrupts, or destroys information, and is then passed on to other systems,
  4. 6. a wide variety of bad software used to infect and/or damage a system
  5. 9. The process of identifying a user’s identity, making sure that they can have access to the system and/or files.
  6. 11. Malware that can reproduce itself for the purposes of spreading itself to other computers in the network.
  7. 12. Any technology, be it software or hardware, used to keep intruders out.
  8. 14. Unprocessed Information
  9. 18. a method of connecting a series of computers and devices in a private encrypted network,