Password Protection
This kind of application remembers all your passwords for you, so you only have to memorize one master password.
What is a password manager?
Named after an outdoor activity, this scam uses fake emails to trick you into clicking a link or giving up your info.
What is phishing?
Named after something that makes you sick, this malware attaches to files and spreads when they're opened.
What is a virus?
Finding a way into a computer, account, or network by getting around its security is called this.
What is hacking?
Hitting "Remind me later" on these is risky, because they fix security holes in your phone and apps.
What are software updates?
Logging in with a password plus a code texted or emailed to your phone is called what?
What is multi-factor authentication?
"Your account will be DELETED in 1 hour unless you log in NOW!" Scammers use this feeling of pressure, so you act before you think.
What is (sense of) urgency?
Named after the giant wooden horse from Greek legend, this malware pretends to be something harmless, like a free game or PDF Viewer, etc.
What is a Trojan (horse)?
Named after a wall in buildings that prevents flames from spreading, this obstacle prevents unwanted traffic from entering your network.
What is a firewall?
The free kind of network at coffee shops and airports is convenient but risky, because strangers on it might snoop.
What is public Wi-Fi?
The process of attempting to guess or retrieve a password from its stored value is called password ______.
What is password cracking?
When a scammer fakes the sender's name or address so an email looks like it came from your school, bank, or another familiar service, it's called this. The word also means a funny imitation or parody.
What is spoofing?
This malware locks all your files and demands a ransom to unlock them.
What is ransomware?
Scrambling data into a secret code so only someone with the right key can read it is called this.
What is encryption?
This three-letter tool creates a private, encrypted tunnel for your internet traffic, handy on public Wi-Fi.
What is a VPN (virtual private network)?
Instead of one word, experts suggest a long string of random words strung together, like "purple taco bicycle moon." It's called this.
What is a passphrase?
Before clicking a link in an email, you can do this with your mouse to see where it really goes.
What is hover (over it)?
Unlike a virus, this malware spreads across networks all by itself, no clicking needed. It shares its name with a wiggly garden creature.
What is a worm?
A tool, code, or technique used to take advantage of a security weakness.
What is an exploit?
Hacking people instead of computers, like pretending to be IT support to get someone's password, is called social ______.
What is social engineering?
When hackers take usernames and passwords leaked from one site and try them on hundreds of other sites, it's called credential ______.
What is credential stuffing?
Also called URL hijacking, this trick means registering misspelled versions of popular websites, like "faacebook.com," to catch people who make a typing mistake. Its name combines "typo" with a word meaning to take over a home that isn't yours.
What is typosquatting?
Mash up "robot" and "network" and you get this term: an army of infected computers all controlled by one attacker.
What is a botnet?
A security flaw that hackers find before the software company even knows about it, leaving the company zero days to fix it.
What is a zero-day?
You should never pick up this small storage device off the ground or from a random place and plug it into your computer.
What is a USB drive?