Across
- 1. Type of personal information scam used to retrieve sensitive information from people.
- 2. Format originally developed to facilitate the syndication of news articles.
- 4. Computer virus that make many copies of itself, resulting in the consumption of system resources that slows down or actually halts tasks.
- 7. Computer virus that does not cause its damage until a certain date or until the system has been booted a number of times.
- 9. Telecommunications service in which parties in remote locations can participate via telephone in a group meeting.
- 11. Computer virus triggered by the appearance or disappearance of specific data.
- 12. Refers to good manners and proper behaviors when communicating through electronic media.
- 13. Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
Down
- 1. Illicit business model where profits are based on the investor's ability to recruit other people to make payments.
- 3. Screening for data matching specified criteria; can be used to eliminate junk mail.
- 5. An attempt to deceive an audience into believing that something false is real.
- 6. The practice of adding keywords to content to simplify searching.
- 7. Computer virus that does something different from what it is expected to do.
- 8. Story which at one time could have been partially true, but has grown from constant retelling.
- 10. Computer program that is written to cause corruption of data