Cybercrime and Security Issues

Direction: Write the correct answer on the space provided.

1. Cybercrime denotes criminal activity where a computer or a network is the

source, tool, target, or crime place.

2. Computer Science refers to testing and exploring computer systems, highly

skilled computer programming, or the practice of accessing and altering other
people’s computers.

3. Pieces of programming code that is usually disguised as something else is

known as a virus.

4. A Worm is a destructive program that resides in an active memory of a

computer. It duplicates themselves and can spread without human intervention

5. A trojan acts like a real application or file to trick the user of the machine. It is
created to damage, disrupt, steal, or inflict some other harmful action on your
data or network.

6. Email Spam refers to unsolicited e-mails or the electronic equivalent of ‘junk

mail.’

7. Phishing is a criminally fraudulent way of acquiring sensitive information such

as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading a
trustworthy entity in electronic communication.

8. All online services offer some form of E-mail, allowing people to send personal
e-mail messages to others.

9. Cookies are a small amount of data indicated on your web browser to trace a
certain piece of information.

10. Piracy is the unauthorized or prohibited use of works under copyright.