Unit #1 Vocabulary "Computer Science Discoveries"

Any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual.

• Personal Data

• Digital Artifact

• Impersonation

• Artificial Intelligence

A form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system.

• Social Engineering

• Troubleshooting

• Iteratively Improve

• Accessibility

A keyboard design that comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard.

• Dell

• Logitech

• QWERTY

• HP

WPM

• Words Per Hour

• Words Per Mile

• Miles Per Hour

• Words Per Minute

The psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information that they otherwise would not normally do.

• Social Engineering

• Spoofing

• Artificial Intelligence

• Pseudocode

The act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.

• Hoaxes

• Phishing

• Impersonation

• Spoofing

A message which is written to deliberately spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.

• Phishing

• Impersonation

• Hoaxes

• Spoofing

A deliberate falsehood designed to seem truthful. 

• Phishing

• Hoaxes

• Spoofing

• Impersonation

The act of disguising a communication from an unknown source as being from a known, trusted source.

• Spoofing

• Phishing

• Hoaxes

• Impersonation

Any object that is created using digital tools.

• Artificial Intelligence

• Digital Artifact

• Social Engineering

• Computer