Data Interception - Word Drop

Information about an identified or identifiable individual is called ______. It includes a full name, home address, phone number and bank card details. Criminals want it because they can use it to commit ______ theft, which means pretending to be someone else, or to blackmail someone.

Data interception means reading data while it travels between being sent and being received. It often happens when data is sent over ______, a wireless network, or the internet. The attacker redirects the network ______ through their own device so they can monitor it. Interception is hard to ______ because the attacker does not change the data. The message still arrives at the intended ______ unchanged, so nothing seems to be wrong.

Scrambling a message so that only the right person can read it is called ______. Encryption does not stop data being intercepted, but it does stop that data being ______.

A Caesar cipher encrypts a message by moving each letter a set number of places along the alphabet. When the shift goes past Z it ______ around to the start. The person receiving the message ______ it by moving every letter back. They can only do this if they know the number of places used, which is the ______.