Computer Apps I Vocabulary 9

unsolicited email messages sent to many addresses; "junk" email

• Ethics

• Netiquette

• Hacking

• Spam

scheme used to take money under false pretenses or for a product that does not work as advertised

• Hacker

• Digital Certificate

• Firewall

• Scam

rules for proper online behavior

• Ethics

• Netiquette

• Computer Virus

• Hacker

accessing computers or networks without proper permission

• Spam

• Hacking

• Identity Theft

• Scam

an attachment to a document that verifies the identity of a person sending a message or indicates the security of a website

• Ethics

• Netiquette

• Digital Certificate

• Firewall

moral standards or values that describe how people should behave

• Ethics

• Netiquette

• Hacking

• Spam

finding out personal information about a person so as to impersonate that person by using his or her credit cards and damaging that person's good name

• Spam

• Hacking

• Identity Theft

• Scam

hardware and software used to help prevent unauthorized users from accessing a person's data

• Hacker

• Scam

• Digital Certificate

• Firewall

person who accesses computers or networks without proper permission

• Computer Virus

• Hacker

• Identity Theft

• Scam

destructive program that destroys or harms data on a computer; can be loaded onto a computer and run without the computer owner's knowledge

• Computer Virus

• Hacker

• Identity Theft

• Scam