| A | B |
|---|
| Artificial Intelligence | Processing information without human intervention. |
| Biometric Security Measures | Security which employs fingerprint, voice patterns, and retina of the eye for employees to gain access to secure areas. |
| Bot | Robotic software programs used by search engines to sort information. |
| Computer Crime | Criminal act committed through the use of a computer, such as getting into someone else’s system and changing information or creating a computer virus and causing damage to other’s information |
| Computer Fraud | Manipulation of a computer or computer data to obtain money, property, or value dishonestly or to cause loss. |
| Computer-based learning | Using a computer for instruction. |
| Data Diddling | Act of changing data before it is entered in the computer or after it has been entered. |
| Digital Cash | Paying by transmitting a number from one computer to another. |
| Electronic commerce | Having a business online. |
| Hacking | Invading someone else’s computer for personal gain or satisfaction. |
| Identity Theft | The crime of obtaining someone else’s personal data and using it for financial gain or to defraud or deceive. |
| Logic Bomb | Computer virus triggered by the appearance or disappearance of specified data. |
| Simulations | Models of real world activities. |
| Software Piracy | The illegal copying or use of computer programs. |
| Time Bomb | Computer virus that does not cause its damage until a certain date or until the system has been booted a certain number of times. |
| Trojan Horse | Computer virus that does something different from what it is expected to do. |
| Virtual Reality | An artificial environment that feels like a real one. |
| Virus | A computer program that is written to cause corruption of data. |
| Voice Recognition | Software that translates the spoken word into commands that the computer recognizes. |
| Worm | Computer virus that makes many copies of itself, resulting in the consumption of system resources that slows down or actually halts tasks. |
