Online Safety: CyberSecurity

What is antivirus software?

• Computer programs that can block, detect, and remove viruses and other malware. Only effective if one stays current with the software updates.

• Extra copies of computer files that can be used to restore files that are lost or damaged.

• The amount of data that can pass through a network or part of a network per second.

• Multiple computers on a network that are infected with a program that can be controlled remotely. The infected computers are usually used to cause damage that couldn’t be achieved with a single computer.

What are backups?

• Computer programs that can block, detect, and remove viruses and other malware.

• Extra copies of computer files that can be used to restore files that are lost, damaged, or corrupted from a virus.

• The amount of data that can pass through a network or part of a network per second.

• Multiple computers on a network that are infected with a program that can be controlled remotely. The infected computers are usually used to cause damage that couldn’t be achieved with a single computer.

What is bandwidth?

• Computer programs that can block, detect, and remove viruses and other malware.

• Extra copies of computer files that can be used to restore files that are lost or damaged.

• It is the capacity of a network to upload and download data; it determines your ability to stream or not.

• Multiple computers on a network that are infected with a program that can be controlled remotely. The infected computers are usually used to cause damage that couldn’t be achieved with a single computer.

What is a botnet?

• Computer programs that can block, detect, and remove viruses and other malware.

• Extra copies of computer files that can be used to restore files that are lost or damaged.

• The amount of data that can pass through a network or part of a network per second.

• Multiple computers on a network that are infected with a program that can be controlled remotely. The infected computers are usually used to cause damage that couldn’t be achieved with a single computer.

What is Social Engineering?

• Two or more interconnected devices that can exchange data.

• The use of deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes

• A distributed denial of service attack attempts to make an online service, like a website, unavailable by overwhelming it with a flood of traffic from a team of computers.

• The use of centralized planning in an attempt to manage social change and regulate the future development and behavior of a society

What is Tokenization?

• Two or more interconnected devices that can exchange data.

• It is a process by which a piece of sensitive data, such as a credit card number, is replaced by a surrogate value known as a token (such as using emojis for letters of the alphabet).

• A distributed denial of service attack attempts to make an online service, like a website, unavailable by overwhelming it with a flood of traffic from a team of computers.

• An example of symmetric encryption—a method that uses the same mathematical key to code and decode a message. For example: each letter in the alphabet being shifted or “rotated”

What is a DDoS?

• Two or more interconnected devices that can exchange data.

• A computer program that can copy itself and cause harm in various ways, such as stealing private information or destroying data.

• A distributed denial of service attack attempts to make an online service, like a website, unavailable by overwhelming it with a flood of traffic from a team of computers.

• A fictional virus modeled after the Stuxnet virus. Like Stuxnet, Doxnet is able to damage physical infrastructure.

What is a Shouldering?

• Climbing boulders shoulder high.

• A computer program that can copy itself and cause harm in various ways, such as stealing private information or destroying data.

• A distributed denial of service attack that attempts to make an online service, like a website, unavailable by overwhelming it with a flood of traffic from a team of computers.

• Observing a person's private information over their shoulder or using screen capture software.

What is a firewall?

• Software designed to block malware from entering protected networks.

• Someone who uses computers and computer networks to disrupt services or share secret information in an effort to draw attention to political or social issues.

• A company or organization that gives users and devices access to the Internet.

• A program that records every key struck on a keyboard and sends that information to an attacker

What is a Hacktivist?

• Software designed to block malware from entering protected networks.

• Someone who uses computers and computer networks to disrupt services or share secret information in an effort to draw attention to political or social issues.

• A company or organization that gives users and devices access to the Internet.

• A program that records every key struck on a keyboard and sends that information to an attacker