Across
- 2. E-mail that is not wanted
- 6. Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain
- 9. The use of electronic communication to torment a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature
- 10. Luring (someone) into a relationship by means of a fictional online identity
- 12. Any skilled computer expert that uses their technical knowledge to overcome a problem
- 13. A network security system that monitors and controls the incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules
- 15. Software secretly installed on a computer used to monitor your online activity
- 16. Software that is intended to do bad things like damage or disable computers and computer systems
- 17. A type of malicious software that blocks access to the victim's data and threatens to publish or delete it until a ransom is paid
- 18. Sending fraudulent emails pretending to be from real companies in order to get people to reveal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers
Down
- 1. A piece of code that is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data
- 3. software that automatically shows or downloads advertising material (often unwanted) when a user is online
- 4. Kind of theft when someone uses another's personally identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes
- 5. An image of the data displayed on the monitor of a computer or mobile device
- 7. To receive data from a remote system
- 8. A secret word or phrase that must be used to gain admission to something
- 9. Criminal activities carried out by means of computers or the Internet
- 11. Fixed, cannot be broken into
- 14. Software designed to detect and destroy computer viruses
- 19. A connection file or document to another location or file, typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or image on the screen