Cyber - Lesson 1.1 - Vocab

The trail that you leave behind when you engage in online experiences.

• encryption
  

• digital footprint
  

• authorize

  
  

• phishing

  
  

An emulation of a computer system.

• virtual machine

• algorithm

• CAPTCHA

To guess or discover information, especially a password.

• social engineering

• authenticate

• crack

A collection of Python code or commands that perform some function.

• encryption

• Python script

• email source

An attempt to discover information, especially passwords, through trial and error. Attackers try as many passwords or phrases as possible hoping one of the guesses is correct.

• brute force attack

• dictionary attack

• encryption

A systematic attempt to crack a password, testing with words and phrases found in online dictionaries.

• malware

• brute force attack

• dictionary attack

A process that converts human-readable text or data into a coded form. It is usually used to protect data from being easily seen or accessed.

• algorithm

• encryption

• authenticate

A set of steps to accomplish a task. Expressed in many kinds of notation, such as natural language, pseudocode, and flowcharts. Essential to the way computers process data, because they contain the specific instructions for what a computer or program does.

• spam

• algorithm

• encryption

The part of the filename that comes after the period, indicating the file type.

• file extension

• digital footprint

• brute force attack

To give permission, for example, in order to access information.

• social engineering

• authenticate

• authorize