Cyber Security Vocabulary Test Practice

A type of crime in which your private information is stolen and used for criminal activity.

• Red flag feeling

• Identify theft

• Affinity group

• Corroboration

information that comes to us through the internet, often through a tablet, smartphone, or laptop

• unplug

• digital media

• media balance

• curate

An additional source that confirms or supports a news story, article or piece of information

• Bias

• Credible

• Corroboration

• Curate

Where people use devices, apps, websites to start or further a conflict between people

• Digital drama

• Red flag feeling

• Bias

• Phishing

To lessen the intensity of anger in a conflict

• De escalate

• Bia

• Unplug

• Red flag feeling

when someone loses as an institution, like a bank or school, and sends you a personalized message asking you to provide private information

• red flag feeling

• internet scam

• shortened URL

• phishing

A web address that has been condensed and which could mislead an user into going into a risky website

• Curate

• Red flag feeling

• Shortened URL

• Media balance

Behaviors we do often or regularly with digital media and devices

• De escalate

• Private information

• Bias

• Digital habits

Able to be believe d trustworthy

• Evaluate

• Corroboration

• Bias

• Credible

Without a name or other information that identifies who you are

• Affinity group

• Anonymous

• Internet scam

• Digital media