Ch.9 MC

Privacy concern that relates to the responsibility to ensure correct data collection.

• accurary

• access

• history

• identity

Individuals who collect and sell personal data.

• information brokers

• Trojan horses

• phishers

• DRM"

Small data files deposited on your hard disk from websites you have visited.

• digital footprints

• online identities

• cookies

• crackers

Wide range of programs that secretly record and report an individual’s activities on the Internet.

• spyware

• viruses

• zombies

• web bugs

Malicious programs that damage or disrupt a computer system.

• zombies

• malware

• cookies

• firewalls

Infected computers that can be remotely controlled.

• Trojan horses

• zombies

• crackers

• WPA2

Used by scammers to trick Internet users with official-looking websites.

• online identity

• history file

• phishing

• Trojan horse

A type of scanning device such as fingerprint and iris (eye) scanner.

• phishing

• biometric

• firewall

• web bug

Process of coding information to make it unreadable except to those who have a key.

• phishing

• spyware

• dark web

• encryption

An ethical issue relating to using another person’s work and ideas as your own without giving credit to the original source.

• phishing

• identity theft

• key logging

• plagiarism