Cyber Terms

1. malware that encrypts your files until you pay a fee
8. Sending fake emails to get you to click on a link
10. Changing your IP or Mac address to appear from a different machine
12. (2wds) A misleading computer program that allows a hacker into your system
13. A means of attack on a computer system
14. a wide variety of bad software used to infect and/or damage a system
15. Coding used to protect your information from hackers
16. a group of applications that instruct a computer to carry out a task
17. Tricked into clicking on wrong object on a web page
18. Malware that can reproduce itself for the purposes of spreading itself to other computers in the network

2. Process of identifying a user's identity
3. Software or Hardware used to keep intruders out
4. computers and peripherals connected as on entity
5. Malware that snoops on you
6. Malware which changes, corrupts, or destroys information, and then spreads to other systems
7. An audio or video that has been changed to make it seem authentic
9. network of infected computers working together
11. Multiple computers connected together to share resources