All the parts you use to operate the computer
What is User Interface?
Keeps the user from using their device until they pay money.
What is ransomware?
They hunt for problems and fix them before they can be used by hackers.
What are white hat hackers?
You have to type specific commands or phrases. Doesn't use icons or symbols.
What is command-line interface?
Solving problems with computer systems with a step-by-step approach
What is troubleshooting
This is a type of User Interface that uses icons and symbols.
What is Graphical User Interface?
Spies on the person using the device to steal information.
What is spyware?
Putting an app in a secure part of the system with limited access to the rest of the computer system
What is sandboxing?
Techniques used to keep information secret, available, and uncorrupted
What is cybersecurity?
Delivers pictures, animations, and videos that can be viewed on the computer screen.
What is Graphics Processing Unit?
A hacker pretends to have a real email address or website to get you to enter your username and password.
What is Phishing?
Readable information is scrambled and changed into a secret message.
What is encryption?
Information that needs to be kept secret
What is private?
A worldwide system of connected computer networks.
What is the internet?
They break into computer systems to accomplish political goals
What are hacktivists?
Harmful software is disguised as a normal file.
What is a Trojan Horse?
Unscrambling the secret message and making it readable again.
What is decryption?
A hacker uses a computer to guess every possible authentication
What is brute force? or What is a brute force attack?
Used with the cipher to decrypt a message
What is the key?
Harmful software installed on a computer
What is malware?
Harmful software that can spread to all computers connected in a network. (Very dangerous in a network)
What is a virus?
When someone decrypts encrypted messages without being told the key
What is cracking a code? or What is cracking a cipher?
Software that spreads on its own by making copies of itself
What is a worm?
Someone pretends to be someone else they're not to get information. (most popular kind of attack)
What is social engineering?
A specific form of troubleshooting. Finding and correcting "bugs" with a computer program
What is Debugging?