2.1 PLTW Data Diligence

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The process of encoding data to prevent unauthorized access, such as converting plaintext to ciphertext.

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