If a hacker wants to ‘crack’ your password, they can systematically try all the different combinations of letters, numbers and other symbols until eventually

at least one capital letter,  at least one numerical value,  at least one other keyboard character

Adware is a type of malware. At its least dangerous it will attempt to flood an end-user with unwanted advertising.

Distributed Denial of Service

A Trojan horse replaces all or part of the legitimate software with the intent of carrying out some harm to the user’s computer system.

Anti-virus, Anti-spyware:

administrator, standart, guest

Access levels, Authentication, Biometrics, 2 step verification, Firewall, Secure sockets layer (SSL)

Spyware is software that gathers information by monitoring a user’s activities carried out on their computer.

Worms are a type of stand-alone malware that can self-replicate.

two similar but different types of cybercrime.Phishing involves sending deceptive communication. Pharming is a more advanced method that manipulates DNS records

Data interception is a form of stealing data by tapping into a wired or wireless communication link.

Viruses are programs or program code that replicate (copies themselves) with the intention of deleting or corrupting files