Duplicate of Internet and Digital Literacy

A scam to trick people into giving out personal and financial information

Using security tools to find security holes and to test and improve security

Rerouting a user from the website they thought they were going into to a different site

software available free of charge after which a fee may be requested for continued use.

What does LAN stand for?

Signature

A program that keeps track of every keystroke that you type.

Collection of tools that allows a hacker to access to a vulnerable computer and hide tracks

Who created the Analytical Engine and the Difference Engine

Unsolicited instant messages

Unethical marketing to trick you into paying & downloading worthless security software

Compromising a domain name server to hijack users without even their web browsers catching on.

Email message containing a fake From: address making it impossible to tell where is came from

Unsolicited email or junk mail

The practice of advertising rogue security software on reputable websites to exploit user's

A form of intimidation and harassment using electronic means

Information written on your hard drive by a website that you visit.

Who is known as the first programmer?

program delivering targeted advertising content to users by gathering info from user's computer.

A program that monitors your computer usage w/out your knowledge?

Malware

Practice of using deception to give a website a higher search engine ranking that it deserves.

Worm

Programmer who breaks into someone else's system or data without permission

A form of malware in which the user's computer files are encrypted until an amount of $ is paid

A hacker who uses a virus, worm or coordinated computer attack against a political adversary

John Van Neumann is known for his computer work with

Which of the following is not a type of topology?

Virus