cyber crime & social networking & online documents

What is malware?

• Software made by a man called Mal (Malcom)
• Any form of malicious software
• Someone that intercepts data from a user, pretending to be a website

What law stops people making any malware?

• Data Protection Act
• The computer misuse act
• Anti Hacking Act

What reason is a hacker likely to try to hack?

• Fun
• Got nothing better to do
• Money

What is a virus?

• A program that deletes all your files
• A program that copies itself
• A program that ruins your computer
• A program that records everything you type

What is a trojan horse?

• A virus
• A worm
• A program that copies itself
• Malware that appears safe to trick you into downloading it

What identifies an email as a phishing scam?

• It says 'phishing scam - be aware'
• The link on the email is incorrect
• The email always has lots of spelling errors
• It won't look real.

A phishing email is one which:

• requests a payment for goods you have not received

• offers you products in which you may have no interest

• encourages you to click on a link to a fraudulent website

• contains abusive and threatening language

Hacking is illegal under:

• The Data Protection Act

• The Computer Misuse Act

• Copyright Law

• Health and Safety Law

You can protect yourself against spam or fraudulent emails by:

• using a spam filter

• never clicking on links that you are suspicious of

• being aware of different types of fraudulent email

• all of the above

Hackers:

• will destroy your computer hardware

• are rarely able to steal personal data

• sometimes steal passwords so they can access your online account

• can only steal one password at a time