Across
- 2. a type of cyber threat that involves sending a user a fake email that is designed to look genuine. It will encourage the user to provide their personal data either by clicking a link to a fake website, or by responding to the email.
- 4. a type of malicious software that is downloaded onto a user's computer or device.
- 5. a software based cyber threat that replicates itself with the aim of corrupting data or filling up the available memory space in a computer,causing it to crash.
- 7. a type of cyber threat that targets a web server to cause it to crash and prevent access to the web pages that it stores.
- 9. a software based cyber threat that spies on a user's action whilst using a computer, such as logging their key presses.
- 10. a software based cyber issue that automatically creates popup advertisements.
Down
- 1. a type of password that uses a person's biological data, such as their fingerprint.
- 3. a name given to a perpetrator that carries out an act of hacking.
- 6. a software based cyber threat that encrypts a user's data to stop them gaining access to it until a ransom (money) is paid.
- 8. a cyber security method that is used to examine incoming and outgoing traffic from a computer or network.