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Flashcards by Shannon Anderson-Rush, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Shannon Anderson-Rush
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Internet/CyberSecurity | Vocabulary Review |
| Net Neutrality | the principles that ISP's should deliver data to everyone equality, as fast as the technology allows. |
| Encryption | the process of converting information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorized access. |
| phishing | the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers. |
| cookie | An HTTP cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser while the user is browsing. |
| DDoS (distributed denial of service attack) | characterized by an explicit attempt by attackers to prevent legitimate users of a service from using that service. In a DDoS attack, the incoming traffic flooding the victim originates from many different sources – potentially hundreds of thousands or more. |
| Software Piracy | the illegal copying, distribution, or use of software. It is such a profitable "business" that it has caught the attention of organized crime groups in a number of countries. |
| Worm | a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. |
| Cloud Computing | the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. |
| Internet | a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols. |
| TCP/IP | the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet; a set of rules (protocols) governing communications among all computers on the Internet. |
| Router | a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the traffic directing functions on the Internet. |
| Cybersecurity | the state of being protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of electronic data, or the measures taken to achieve this. |
| Virus | a piece of code that is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data. |
| Malware | general name for a program that tries to affect your computer badly |
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