Unit 5 - Cybersecurity and Global Impacts Vocabulary

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Includes a program as an integral part of its function. Can be physical (e.g. self-driving car), non-physical computing software (e.g. picture editing software), or non-physical computing concepts (e.g., e-commerce).

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Computing Innovation

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Information about an individual that identifies, links, relates, or describes them.

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Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

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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.

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Keylogging

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

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Malware

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

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Phishing

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

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Rouge Access Point

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

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Decryption

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A process of encoding messages to keep them secret, so only 'authorized' parties can read it.

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Encryption

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Pairs a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption. The sender does not need the receiver’s private key to encrypt a message, but the receiver’s private key is required to decrypt the message.

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Public Key Encryption

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Involves one key for both encryption and decryption.

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Symmetric Key Encryption