Digital Devices
A portable computer that uses a touchscreen as its primary input device.
What is a tablet computer?
Computer code capable of replicating and causig damage to your computer and compromising your data.
What is a virus?
Programs that you can install on your computer that protect it from viruses, hackers, and other malicious attacks.
What is security software?
Protection while using the internet for hardware, software and data from online attacks.
What is Cybersecurity?
the electronic equivalent of junk mail. The term refers to unsolicited, bulk – and often unwanted – email.
What is Spam?
A computer designed for use by one person at a time.
What is a Personal Computer?
Software designed to damage your computer or get access to your personal information. It includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware.
What is Malware?
Software used to maintain the security of a private network. Block unauthorized access to or from private networks.
What is a firewall?
A small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. Remembers information about you, similar to a preference file created by a software application.
What are Cookies?.
When someone uses email or malicious websites (clicking on a link) to collect personal and financial information or infect your machine with malware and viruses.
What is Phishing?
A portable computer that you can take with you and use in different environments. Has a built in screen, keyboard, and mouse.
What is a Laptop Computer?
A form of malicious code that displays ads on your computer.
What is Adware?
A web addresses with https:// indicating extra measures to help secure your information.
What is a Security Enabled Website?
You should never give this out online.
What is personal information?
An unsolicited email that claims the prospect of a bargain or something for nothing. Some scam messages ask for business, others invite victims to a website with a detailed pitch.
What is an email scam?
An electronic device that manipulates information or data and has the ability to store, retrieve, and process data.
What is a Computer?
Software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive.
What is Spyware?
A combination of letters, numbers, and characters used to login to online accounts and devices.
What is a password?
What is a link?
Any Internet-related illegal activity.
What is Cybercrime?
A mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen
What is a Smartphone?
A form of malware that deliberately prevents you from accessing files on your computer – holding your data hostage.
What is Ransomware?
A security measure used to identify a user. Often used to access a computer, email account, or other network application. Typically consists of a username and password.
What is a login?
A random collection of words to use for login information.
What is a passphrase?
Can look like a regular email. It can look just like it was sent by your bank, an e-commerce site, a government agency or any other business.
What is a Malicious Email?