Cybersecurity Terms

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What is cybersecurity?

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Things that are done to protect a person, organization, or country and their computer information against crime or attacks carried out using the internet.

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What are cyber threats?

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A malicious acts that seeks to damage data, steal data, or disrupt digital life in general.

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What is a data breach?

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An occasion when private information can be seen by people who should not be able to see it.

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What is data protection?

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The process of protecting sensitive information from damage, loss, or corruption.

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Who is a hacker?

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Someone who gets into other people's computer systems without permission in order to find out information or to do something illegal.

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What are malicious attacks?

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An active attack where the attacker attempts to gain knowledge about private states of genuine devices in a system by altering, playback, or deleting messages, deviating from the system protocols.

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What is malware?

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Computer software that is designed to damage the way a computer works.

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What is personal data / sensitive data?

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Information held on computers that relates only to you, and that you do not want everyone to know.

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What is phishing?

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An attempt to trick someone into giving information over the internet or by email that would allow someone else to take money from them.

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What is programming?

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The activity or job of writing computer programs.