unit 8- cyber security and global impacts

Question 1

PII

Answer 1

(Personally Identifiable Information)- information about an individual that identifies, links, relates, or describes them.

Question 2

Phishing

Answer 2

technique that tricks a user into providing personal information, can then be used to access sensitive online resources, such as bank accounts and emails

Question 3

keylogging

Answer 3

the use of a program to record every keystroke made by a computer user in order to gain fraudulent access to passwords and other confidential information

Question 4

Malware

Answer 4

software intended to damage a computing system or to take partial control over its operation

Question 5

Rogue Access Point

Answer 5

a wireless access point that gives unauthorized access to secure networks.

Question 6

Encryption

Answer 6

a process of encoding messages to keep them secret, so only “authorized” parties can read it

Question 7

Decryption

Answer 7

a process that reverses encryption, taking a secret message and reproducing the original plain text

Question 8

Cipher

Answer 8

the generic term for a technique (or algorithm) that performs encryption

Question 9

Caesar’s Cipher-

Answer 9

a technique for encryption that shifts the alphabet by some number of characters

Question 10

Cracking encryption

Answer 10

when you attempt to decode a secret message without knowing all the specifics of the ciphers, you are trying to crack the encryption

Question 11

Symmetric Key Encryption

Answer 11

encrypting data using the same key/code used for both encryption and decryption