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WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

cyberattacks: deliberate electronic efforts to destroy or cause damage to computer systems and/or steal information in a particular area of business, such as car manufacturing or hospitality doctorate: an educational credential that is awarded to an individual who completes two or three additional years of education after earning a master’s degree; it is also known as a doctoral degree forensic science: the process of using science to obtain facts that can be used in court or in other situations where the truth needs to be established professional association: an organization that is founded by a group of people who have the same career (e.g., police officers, intelligence officers) or who work in the same industry specialty (e.g., information technology, security) probation: a type of judicial monitoring in which a person who is convicted of a crime is not sent to jail but, instead, is required to go a certain period of time without committing a crime or otherwise breaking the rules of probation

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