Across
- 2. The official procedure or system of rules
- 4. A virus that covertly monitors your online behavior without your knowledge or permission
- 5. A program that seems to be a helpful but actually is a virus
- 7. A string of characters that allows access to a computer system or service
- 11. Program instructions or a secret message
- 13. A group or system of interconnected people or things
- 14. A Software designed to detect and destroy computer viruses
- 15. a piece of code which is capable corrupting a system or destroying data
Down
- 1. A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data
- 3. an identification used by a person with access to a computer, network, or online service
- 6. Software that displays unwanted pop-up adverts
- 8. copy data from one computer system to another, typically over the internet
- 9. A virus that employs encryption to hold a victim's information at ransom
- 10. A piece of code that's main goal is to self-replicate and infect other computers while remaining active on infected systems
- 12. A secret or disguised way of writing
- 16. Digital junk mail