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Biometric security measures
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Examines a fingerprint, a voice pattern, or the iris or retina of the eye.
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filtering
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A process that can be used to cut down on or eliminate most junk mail.
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fraud
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Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
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hoax
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An attempt to deceive an audience into believing that something false is real.
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logic bomb
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Computer virus triggered by the appearance or disappearance of specified data.
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netiquette
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A combination of the words net and etiquette, refers to good manners and proper behaviors when communicating through electronic media.
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phishing
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Types of personal information scams.
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pyramid schemes
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An illicit business model where profits are based on the investor's ability to recruit other individuals who are enrolled to make payments to their recruiters. Generally, neither a product or service is delivered
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RDF Summary
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Formats originally developed to facilitate the syndication of news articles.
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Spam
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Unsolicited commercial e-mail that is sent to many people at the same time to promote products or services also called junk mail
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tagging
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The practice of adding keywords to content to simplify searching
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teleconfrencing
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Telecommunications service in which parties in remote locations can participate via telephone in a group meeting
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time bomb
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Computer virus that does not cause its damage until a certain date or until the system has been booted a certain of times
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Trojan horse
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Computer virus that does something different from what is expected to do
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Urban Legend
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a story that at one point could have been true, but has grown into a myth from constant retelling
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virus
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A computer program that is written to caus ecorruption of data
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worm
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computer virus that makes easy copies of himself, resulting in the consumption of system resources that slows down or actually halts tasks.
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ActiveX
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a set of rules developed by Microsoft for Windows that controls Windows applicationsthat are downloaded from the internet and then run in a browser
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Client
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a computer tha uses the services of another program
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Cookie
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small text files created by some Web pages when you visit the site.
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Digital Certificate
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an electronic document similar to an ID card
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domain
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A name or other attribute that identifies a compuetr or web site on the internet
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File transfer protocol
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Internet standard that allows users to download and upload files with other computers on the internet
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Geographic imaging
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Technology to change imagery of the earths surface into valuable information
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hit
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Any time a piece of data matches serach words you specify
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home page
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First page that is displayed when a browser is launched
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HTML
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Protocol that controls home web pages are formatted and displayed
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Http
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Protocol that defines how messages are formatted and transmitted over the world wide web
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Ip
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A numerical addressing system that uniquely identifies computers and networks linked to the internet
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Internet service provider (ISP)
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An organization or company that provides connectivity to the internet through a telecommunications line or wireless system
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Mosaic
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The first graphical browser.
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podcast
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A method of publishing files (primarily audio) to the Internet that can be streamed or downloaded for playback on a computer or a personal digital audio player.
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portal
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A Web site that featurres useful content, but also contains links to other sites
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Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
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A format originally developed to syndicate news articles online, this communication method now is used widely to share the contents of blogs.
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
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A protocol for managing the security of message transmissions on the Internet
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social networking site
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An online community that provides interavtion for groups of people who share a similar interest or activity.
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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Address that tells the brwoser where to locate a Web page.
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Web 2.0
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Participatory Web, this term has several definitions , although the most popular one refers to Web sites where users can modify the content.
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Web cache
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A temporary storage area on your computer collecting data
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Web site
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A collection of realted HTLM-formatted Web pages located on the World Wide Web
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webapp
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Sites host software applications you can access with your Web broswer
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wiki
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A collaborative Web site that people can use to add, edit, remove, and organize Web page content.
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