e saftey L3

Question 1

Phishing

Answer 1

Is a form of Internet fraud where criminals aim to steal valuable information such as credit cards, social security numbers, user IDs and passwords for bank accounts.

Question 2

Hacking

Answer 2

Is the act of intruding into a system by unauthorised means. This is also in breach of the UK Computer Misuse Act

Question 3

Biometrics

Answer 3

Various technologies used to measure some feature of a person in order to identify them within a security system

Question 4

Encryption

Answer 4

To scramble a message in such a way that only the people who are meant to read it can do so

Question 5

Virus

Answer 5

Is a piece of program code that makes copies of itself by attaching itself to another program. The virus can waste the host’s resources, and sometimes destroy or change files.