Across
- 3. to stop something from working
- 8. new understanding of a complicated problem or situation
- 9. software designed by criminals to prevent computer users from getting access to their own computer system or files unless they pay money
- 11. to find the origin of something
- 13. a business that sells to the public
- 14. the money that people need to live on
- 15. very effective
- 16. not connected to the internet
- 17. an official document that allows the police to take action
Down
- 1. intended to cause damage to or to steal private information from a computer system
- 2. the process of protecting data by changing it into code
- 4. allowed by law
- 5. someone who obeys the law
- 6. a sequence of numbers, letters and symbols that form instructions for a computer program
- 7. a situation in which you accept something bad in order to have something good
- 10. a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and screen that's used for communicating with the part of a computer system that deals with information
- 11. to direct something at somebody
- 12. to force someone to do something