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- 3. Engineering The art of tricking or manipulating people into providing information that they normally would not provide.
- 6. Passwords should be _________ every 3-4 months.
- 7. Theft The fraudulent acquisition and use of a person's private identifying information, usually for financial gain.
- 9. Never share your _________ with another person.
- 11. A password is stronger by using a combination of both upper and lower case ___________.
- 12. A software that is designed to detect and destroy computer viruses.
- 14. Applied to data to protect it from unauthorized use in case of theft or loss.
- 16. Use __________ passwords for the various accounts that you may have.
- 19. Also known as malicious software; any program or file that is harmful to a computer user.
- 20. ____________ is the need to ensure that the people involved with the agency, including employees, customers, and visitors, are protected from harm.
- 21. A computer ______ can be considered as the modern counterpart of a paper document.
- 22. A collection of information that is organized so that it can easily be accessed, managed, and updated.
- 24. Healthy email always includes a clear and specific ____________ line.
- 25. Desk If you have any question or concerns about an email that you receive you can send it to spam@ashevillenc.gov or contact for _______.
- 28. ________ laws such as HIPAA are designed for the regulation of personal information about individuals which can be collected by governments and other public and private organizations.
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- 1. __________ is a popular web search engine.
- 2. Protect your laptop, cell phone or any other mobile devices by treating it like _______.
- 4. Use this tool to dispose of documents that contain personal or financial information.
- 5. Do not send __________ information over email unless it is encrypted.
- 8. A secure password should contain at least one of these.
- 9. Email scam or attempt to trick you into giving your password or personal information.
- 10. Do not leave your laptop or computer ____________.
- 13. __________ stick, also known as a flash drive, is a plug-and-play portable storage device that uses flash memory and is lightweight enough to attach to a key chain.
- 15. Choose a password that is easy for you to ____________ but hard for someone to guess.
- 17. A __________ is hardware of software that helps keep hackers from using your computer and it watches for outside attempts to access your sysytem and blocks communition that you don't permit.
- 18. To ________ the amount of spam you receive, be careful who you give your email address to.
- 20. The state of being free from danger or threat.
- 23. Another word for understanding, knowledge and well-informed.
- 26. A __________ is often an email that gets mailed in chain letter fashion describing some devasting, highly unlikely type of virus.
- 27. Passwords should always be at least this many characters long.