AJ 025 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Crimeware, Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 025
• Professor: shirk

Document Summary

Hacking: using one computer, smartphone or device to break into another. Danger posed by hackers has increased significantly because of botnets (a network of compromised computers connected to the internet that can be used to generate spam, relay viruses, or cause servers to fail) Hackers can secretly install a program on thousands of personal computers. Malware: malicious software programs, such as viruses and worms, that are designed to cause harm to a computer, network or other device. Worm: a software program that automatically replicates itself over a network but does not alter files and is usually invisible to the user until it has consumed system resources. Virus: a software program that can replicate itself over a network and spread from one device to another, altering files and interfering with normal operations. Software as a service is widely used in business to connect to a web-based software rather than buy and download it onto computers.