Vocabulary

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whitehat
balckhat
botnet
adware
to bombard ,
advert
to hijack
bullet-proof
to shut down
request
law-enforcement agency -
lax
dead-drop
carder - ,

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extortionist -
ransom
drive-by ,
booby-trap
honeypot
to track down
key logger
keystroke
malware
malicious ,
phishing -
spyware
to conceal
attachment -
to scour [ska] ,

Task 1. Match terms and definitions

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booby-trap

a network of maliciously installed bots running on multiple computers

blackhat

botnet

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adware
highjack
advert
bullet-proof hosting
carder

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DDoS

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extortionist

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whitehat

a computer hacker who is hired by an organization to undertake non-malicious hacking work in

order to discover computer-security flaws
a notice, such as a poster or a paid announcement in the print, broadcast, or electronic media,
designed to attract public attention
a situation that catches a person off guard; a pitfall
a practitioner of credit card fraud
a network attack, attack on a computer system or network causing a loss of service to users
a computer hacker who carries out illegal malicious hacking work
a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing
information about them
a service provided by some domain hosting or web hosting firms that allows their customer
considerable softness in the kinds of material they may upload and distribute. This has been
taken advantage of by spammers and providers of online gambling
software downloaded from the Internet that displays advertisements on personal computers,
often without the user's permission
to take or capture by force

Task 2. Match synonyms

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malicious program
shut down
lax
extortionist
track down
trick
scour
conceal

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blackmailer
hunt down
search through
trap
unwanted program
hide
knock off
loose