Web Development
Cybersecurity
Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2.0
Random
100

A _____  is a group of connected computers.

What is a network?

100

This is a set of techniques or ways used to keep information secret, available, and uncorrupted?

What is cybersecurity?

100

Readable information is transformed into a secret message.

What is encryption?

100

The language that is used to create the structure of a website.

What is Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)?

100

Another word for protocols is?

What are rules?
300

A type of network made up of nearby computers. 

What is LAN?

300

The process computers use to confirm someone’s identity before giving them access to information.

What is authentication?

300

People who break into computers and large computer systems.

What are hackers?

300

A major way to send information over the internet. 

What is HTTP?

300

Wireless uses what kind of waves?

What are radio waves?

500

This is made of connected LANs that are far from each other (different parts of the country or world).

What is WAN?

500

This combines two different kinds of authentication?

What is two-factor authorization?

500

The tool used to make information unreadable to people who do not have the key.

What is a cipher?

500

Software that spreads like a disease to other computers

What is a virus?

500

The first Web Browser was known as the World Wide Web or ____?

What is Nexus?

700

This man was credited for developing the modern day Internet?

Who is Tim Berners-Lee?

700

Putting an application in a secured part of the system with limited access to the rest of the computer system.

What is sandboxing?

700

When a hacker uses a computer to guess every authentication possibility.

What is a brute force attack?

700

Files and information on a computer should not be changed by an unauthorized person

What is uncorrupted?

700

Small units of data that are sent in binary code through a network?

What are packets?

1000

This is used to direct packets to the right network?

What is an IP Address?

1000

Strategy for keeping information secret.

What is cryptography?

1000

Any type of harmful software installed on a computer

What is malware?

1000

This is the most popular type of attack and it doesn’t use coding at all.

What is social engineering?

1000

The computer where a website is stored is called a?

What is a host?

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