Cyber security

Computing innovation: Includes a program as a part of a function

Examples:

• Physical: self driving car
• Non physical: picture editing software
• Non physical computing: e-commerce

Personally identifiable information: information about individual(s) that identifies them

• birthday, location, address, & computing data
• Can be used to stalk or steal your identity, if your data is in the wrong hands.
• Can be beneficial in scenarios, to find your desired ads.

When you get something free on the internet, you are paying by with your data - nothing is free.

Ethical concerns: computing innovation

• bias algorithms
• devices that collect data by monitoring it continuously
• software that has access to your data without your knowledge when you download something

Vocabulary: computing innovation

• Phishing: Email that looks realistic, but when the link is clicked on your information is sent to malicious hackers
• Key logging: program that uses a keystroke to access data in order to gain fraudulent
• Malware: software intended to damage computing system
• Rouge access point: wireless access point that gives unauthorized access to secure networks
• DDoS: Distributed denial of service

Encryption vocabulary

• Encryption: encoding message
• Decryption: reverse encryption
• Cipher: technique that preforms encryption
• Caesar’s encryption: encryption that shifts the alphabet by some numbers
• Cracking encryption: attempt to decode a secret message without knows the specifics of the cipher
• Symmetric key encryption: involves one key for decryption and encryption
• Public key encryption: pairs a public and private key for encrytion