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