Chapter 4 - Protecting Yourself Online
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Across: 5. Software that flashes advertisements across your screen while another program is running. 7. Software that records every key pressed on the computer and sends that information back to the person tracking it. 8. Using someone else's identification to impersonate that person. 9. Altering a DNS number so the URL leads to a different Web site. 10. Software and/or hardware installed to protect your network from incoming threats. 12. Software that sends information back to someone else without your pernission, about what you do online. 14. The junk mail of the electronic world that tries to sell the consumer something.
Down: 1. Someone who gains unauthorised access to your computer system for the purpose of stealing or destroying data. 2. Surveillance tools used to examine the e-mails sent and received over the Internet 3. Another name for a hacker. 4. Program that monitors information on the network. 6. A small text file that contains data about your previous visit to a Web site. 11. A small program that copies itself and interrupts the computer or the network. 13. Similar to a virus, this copies itself repeatedly, but doesn't need a host to infect a computer, often passed through e-mail.