cybersecurity vocabulary

This cipher uses a key number that indicate how much the letters shift - also a salad!

• computer virus

• cryptography

• caesar

• hal

Designed to protect computer users against deliberate attacks and theft of information.

• computer miss-use act

• computer virus

• cyber crime

• encryption

A small but dangerous piece of programming-code that attacks computer and network systems through 'contaminated' (infected) data files, introduced into a system via disks or internet.

• firewall

• computer virus

• hacking

• malware

The art of Code writing or breaking

• cybercrime

• trojan

• virus

• cryptography

Any illegal activities committed through the use of computers and the internet.

• cybercrime

• worm

• virus

• social engineering

The stealing of secrets stored in digital formats or on computers and IT networks.

• spim

• spyware

• trojan

• cyber espionage

Changing electronic information or signals into a secret code (= system of letters, numbers, or symbols) that people cannot understand or use on normal equipment.

• encryption

• firewall

• analysis

• hacking

A network security device that monitors traffic to or from your network. It allows or blocks traffic based on a defined set of security rules.

• spyware

• great wall

• firewall

• wonderwall

Simple ciphers can often be broken using this to see how often a letter occurs

• frequency analysis

• hacking

• malware

• computer programmer

The activity of illegally using a computer to access information stored on another computer system or to spread a computer virus.

• hacking

• cybercrime

• malware

• password