Across
- 1. Giant central identity database behind Aadhaar
- 4. National-level portal that provides e-documents to citizens
- 6. An attack where hackers overwhelm a system’s resources, causing service denial
- 7. The process of scrambling data so only authorized parties can read it
- 9. India’s nodal agency for responding to computer security incident
- 12. The repeated attempt to guess a password by systematically trying possibilities
- 13. India’s initiative to raise awareness and help clean infected devices
Down
- 1. Indian police initiative or facility for cybercrime investigations (seen in Kerala)
- 2. Common type of malicious software demanding money
- 3. Deceptive online technique used to trick users into revealing personal info
- 5. India’s leading digital payment infrastructure operator
- 8. Central cybersecurity body protecting critical information infrastructure
- 10. Practice of keeping systems updated to vulnerabilities
- 11. Malevolent software that hides within legitimate programs
- 14. A harmful program that self-replicates and spreads to other computers