AP CSP 2.1 Key Terms Review

Information about an individual, such as social security number, age, race, phone number(s), medical information, financial information, and biometric data such as fingerprint records and retina scans.

• Personally identifiable information

• data breach

• cookies

• Phishing

Practice of sending fraudulent emails that appear to be from legitimate companies with the intent to induce people to share sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.

• Personally identifiable information

• data breach

• cookies

• Phishing

The unauthorized access or retrieval of confidential or otherwise protected data.

• Personally identifiable information

• data breach

• cookies

• Phishing

Small text-based bits of information about your browser that a web server saves.

• malware

• data breach

• cookies

• Phishing

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

• malware

• keylogger

• cookies

• rogue access point

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.

• malware

• keylogger

• cookies

• rogue access point

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

• malware

• keylogger

• cookies

• rogue access point

The science and art of delivering a message securely and confidentially.

• cryptography

• encryption

• decrypt

• substitution cipher

The process of decoding the data, the reverse of the encryption process, making the data human-readable again.

• key

• encryption

• decrypt

• substitution cipher

A cipher in which each letter in an alphabet is replaced with a different character or symbol.

• key

• encryption

• brute force

• substitution cipher