Across
- 2. Virus that makes many copies of itself, resulting in the consumption of system resources that slows down or actually halts a task
- 5. Format originally developed to facilitate the syndication of news articles and now widely used to share the contents of blogs
- 6. Process that can be used to cut down on or eliminate most junk mail
- 8. Junk e-mail
- 9. Dishonestly obtaining mone, property, information, or other things of value, or to cause loss.
- 10. Refers to the good manners and proper behaviors when communication through electronic media
- 13. A high-level method of security that matches a fingerprint, voice pattern, or the iris or retina of the eye to the entry originally stored in the system
- 16. An attempt to deceive an audience into believing something false is real
- 17. Used in blogs and other informational sites to simplify the search process
Down
- 1. Virus triggered by the appearance or disappearance of specified data
- 3. Illicit business model where profits are based on the investor's ability to recruit other individuals who are enrolled to make payments to their recruiters
- 4. A telecommunications system that permits the live exchange and sharing of information between two or more people
- 7. A virus that does not cause its damage until a certain date or until the system has been booted a certain number of times
- 11. Using e-mail messages for personal information scams
- 12. A program that has been written usually by a hacker, to cause corruption of data on a computer
- 14. A virus that does something different from what it is expected to do
- 15. Stories that at one time could have been partly true, but have grown form constant retelling into a mythical yarn