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- 4. a type of malware that is often disguised as legitimate software. Trojans can be employed by cyber-thieves and hackers trying to gain access to users' systems Users are typically
- 5. is a binary digit, the smallest increment of data on a computer.
- 6. Browser It's a program on your computer that allows you to connect to the Internet to visit websites, download files, and applications.
- 8. is a network device that both modulates and demodulates analog carrier signals (called sine waves) for encoding and decoding digital information for processing.
- 11. - is a network security device that monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic and decides whether to allow or block specific traffic based on a defined set of security rules.
- 13. short for "malicious software," refers to any intrusive software developed by cybercriminals (often called "hackers") to steal data and damage or destroy computers and computer systems.
- 14. a range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal, the transmission capacity of a computer network or other telecommunication system.
- 17. is a type of malware that spreads copies of itself from computer to computer.
- 18. is a malicious software designed to enter your computer device, gather data about you, and forward it to a third-party without your consent. Spyware can also refer to legitimate software that monitors your data for commercial purposes like advertising.
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- 1. are text files with small pieces of data like a username and password that are used to identify your computer as you use a computer network.
- 2. is a malicious software program loaded onto a user's computer without the user's knowledge and performs malicious actions.... It can self-replicate, inserting itself onto other programs or files, infecting them in the process.
- 3. is digital junk mail: unsolicited communications sent in bulk over the internet or through any electronic messaging system.
- 5. the basic unit of information in computer storage and processing. A byte consists of 8 adjacent binary digits (bits), each of which consists of a 0 or 1....
- 7. is the transmission of wide bandwidth data over a high-speed internet connection.
- 9. an electronic communication setwork that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world used with except when being used attributively.
- 10. stands for the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
- 12. the act or an instance of shutting down and restarting something (such as a computer or program).
- 13. is the electronic holding place for the instructions and data a computer needs to reach quickly. It's where information is stored for immediate use.
- 15. Wide Web is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators, which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.
- 16. Space is an amount of computer storage space on random-access memory devices, such as on a hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.