CP102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Master Boot Record, Antivirus Software, Advance-Fee Scam
Document Summary
Chapter 9: securing your system: protecting your digital data and devices. Cybercrime: any criminal action perpetrated primarily through the use of a computer. Cybercriminals: individuals who use computers, networks, and the internet to perpetrate crime. Fbi-related scams people pretending to represent official organization. Nonauction scams running auctions of merchandise that does not really exist, wherein the perpetrators just collect funds and disappear without delivering the promised goods. Advance fee fraud convincing individuals to send money as a good faith gesture to enable them to receive larger payments in return. Identity theft most financially damaging cybercrime occurs when a theft steals personal information such as your name, address, Social security number, birth date, bank account number, and credit card information and runs up debt s in your name. Virus: a computer program that attaches itself to another computer program (known as the host program) and attempts to spread itself to other computers when files are exchanged.
