NCE Team 1 - Cybersecurity Glossary

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While navigating online, you can encounter a lot of fake news. You mustn't believe such news, and you always have to do research to make sure the news you read are fake or authentic.

E-merchandising is a marketing strategy that utilizes some techniques that are usually called “leverage”. Through these techniques, the e-estrategy aims at attracting the user’s attention focusing on their emotional engagement. 

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It is either the address of a website or the email-address.      

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How to Pronounce Address

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Electronic crime

What is Culture?

Electronic crime is the crime involving a computer and a network. The computer may be the means to the commission of the crime or be the target. 

Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society".

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A portmanteau of “malicious” and “software”, describing a wide variety of bad software used to infect and/or damage a system. Ex.: Ransomware, worms, viruses, etc.

Means of communicating through the network.

How to Pronounce Malware

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It is&nbsp;software&nbsp;with malicious behaviour that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user—for example, by violating their&nbsp;privacy&nbsp;or endangering their device's security. This behaviour may be present in&nbsp;malware&nbsp;as well as in legitimate software.&nbsp;

Malware which changes, corrupts, or destroys information, and is then passed on to other systems. 

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 Impersonating another person for the purpose of deception. 

A hacker is an expert in computer science and programming, is able to hack networks illegally and infect the computer system by stealing data. You need to use the right online protection methods to avoid such inconveniences. Aurora Pelati 3G, istituto Lorenzo Gigli

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Team 1 NCE Cybersecurity Glossary

Acronym or word for the identification and to stay safe on internet.

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The World Wide Web is the network of pages of images, texts and sounds on the Internet which can be viewed using browser software.

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A set of rules  governing the behavior of an Internet user in relating to other users. 

It’s one of the most difficult English words , which means “ the naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds (as "buzz" or "hiss") : the use of words whose sound suggests the sense (as for poetic effect) onomatopoeic”. For example: the words 'pop', 'crack' and 'splat' are all onomatopoeic . It can also be used to represent the sounds that animals or people make.

Especially via webcam, is a concern, especially for those who use webcams for flirting and cybersex. It is often done when a person attracts an attractive person by initiating communication of a sexual nature with the victim. 

What is Sextortion? Example of a sextortion blackmail conversation

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It is an email message with unwanted content which usually ends up in the spam folder after the protection filters.

This is the name given to the software specialized in the detection, blocking and eradication of spyware that scans all your activities on the computer, with the aim of selling this information to third parties or creating vulnerabilities to attack you.

It is a form of website where posts appear in chronological order like a calendar.

Type of program that intercepts all keystrokes made on a keyboard to find out specific data such as passwords and keys.

What is keylogger? Keylogger / keystroke logger spyware explained

Union that is established between two or more things (devices, systems, places, etc.) or people so that there is a relationship or communication.

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