AP CSP Unit 8 Review

• Includes a program as an integral part of its function. Can be physical (e.g. self-driving car), non-physical computing software (e.g. picture editing software), or non-physical computing concepts (e.g., e-commerce).

• computing innovation

• device
• application
• algorithm

• Information about an individual that identifies, links, relates, or describes them.

• sensitive data (SD)

• private information (PI)

• confidential details (CD)

• • personally identifiable information (PII)

A technique that attempts to trick a user into providing personal information. That personal information can then be used to access sensitive online resources, such as bank accounts and emails.

• Malware
• Pharming
• Phishing
• Spoofing

• 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.

• Keyrecording

• Keytracing

• Keyphishing

• Keylogging

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

• Spyware
• Malware
• Ransomware
• Firewall

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

• Rogue access point
• Unauthorized gateway
• Intruder hotspot
• Illegitimate access point

• A process of encoding messages to keep them secret, so only "authorized" parties can read them.

• Encryption
• Deciphering
• Decryption
• Encoding

• A process that reverses encryption, taking a secret message and reproducing the original plain text.

• Decryption
• Obfuscation
• Unscrambling
• Encoding

• Involves one key for both encryption and decryption.

• Public Key Encryption
• Asymmetric Key Encryption
• Private Key Encryption
• Symmetric Key Encryption

• Pairs a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption. The sender does not need the receiver's private key to encrypt a message, but the receiver's private key is required to decrypt the message.

• Public key encryption
• Hashing algorithm
• Asymmetric key encryption
• Symmetric key encryption