9781422284858

The Scientists and Their Science 1

very part of life in the United States relies heavily on computers. That includes banking, transportation, telecommunications , and medical care. So it’s not just the military that is at great risk for a cyber attack. Black-hat hackers could use their programming skills to

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND elite  the part or group having the highest quality or importance epilepsy  a medical condition marked by abnor- mal electrical discharges in the brain predator  a person that stalks other people, or an ani- mal that stalks other animals telecommunications  communication between people far away from each other using telephone, email, or computer viruses  hidden computer programs that produce cop- ies of themselves, insert them into other programs, and usually perform malicious actions, such as de- stroying data; also known as worms or Trojan horses

13