Across
- 6. An attempt to gain personal information about someone by way of deception, eg sending an email pretending to be from their bank asking them for their bank details.
- 7. Electronic mail. A method for sending messages and files to other people.
- 8. Data that is sent in pieces. Each piece is viewed as it arrives, eg a streaming video is watched as it downloads.
- 10. packet A piece of data sent over a network. Messages have to be broken down into binary data packets before they are transferred.
- 11. The computer on a network that request data from a server.
- 12. A link in a document or webpage that connects to another location.
Down
- 1. A web page or group of web pages hosted on one web server and viewed in a web browser, usually maintained by a person, group or organisation.
- 2. An application used to view web pages, eg Internet Explorer or Google Chrome.
- 3. To copy a file from the internet onto your computer or device.
- 4. A global network connecting millions of computers.
- 5. measures the amount of data that can transfer through a communications channel over a given period of time.
- 6. A set of rules for how messages are turned into data packets and sent across networks.
- 8. Unsolicited (junk) email.
- 9. Computer code designed to damage a computer system.