Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
42 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
biometric security measures
|
a type of security measure that ensures only peop[le with specific genes are allowed.
|
|
|
filtering
|
allows you to define rules to manage incoming e-mail by sorting, tagging, forwarding, and deleting messages.
|
|
|
fraud
|
This type of computer crime involves the manipulation of a computer or computer data in order to dishonestly obtain money, property, information, or other things of value, or to cause loss.
|
|
|
hoax
|
an attempt to deceive an audience into believing that something false is real.
|
|
|
logic bomb
|
a type of virus that uses time on a site.
|
|
|
netiquette
|
good manners and proper behaviors when communicating through electronic media.
|
|
|
phishing
|
involves sending messages that appear to come from legitimate sources asking to update or verify personal information, are in fact used to commit identity theft.
|
|
|
pyramid schemes
|
an illicit business model.
|
|
|
RDF summary
|
a format used to share the content of blogs.
|
|
|
spam
|
junk e-mail that attacks your system with ads and non-useful things.
|
|
|
tagging
|
a method in which you can tag sometyhing in order to specify something to one criteria.
|
|
|
teleconferencing
|
permits the live exchange and sharing of information between two or more people.
|
|
|
time bomb
|
a type of virus that uses time on a website to attack a computer.
|
|
|
trojan horse
|
a type of virus that starts small and builds over time.
|
|
|
urban legend
|
stories that at one time could have been partially true, but have grown from constant retelling into mythical yarn.
|
|
|
virus
|
a program that has been written, usually by a hacker, to cause corruption of data on a computer.
|
|
|
worm
|
a typ[e of virus that goes into the system by hackers hacking into it.
|
|
|
ActiveX
|
a programming interface developed by Microsoft for Windows. This set of rules controls Windows applications that are downloaded from the Internet and then run in a browser.
|
|
|
client
|
a type of computer program that makes a service request from a server.
|
|
|
cookie
|
a small text file that Web sites put on your computer to store information about you and your preferences
|
|
|
digital certificate
|
an electronic document similar to an ID card. It verifies the identity of a person or company and confirms that they own a public key.
|
|
|
domain
|
identifies a computer or Web site on the Internet.
|
|
|
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
|
used to transfer files between computers. You can upload (send) files from one computer to another and retrieve (download) files from a server to a computer.
|
|
|
geographic imaging
|
taking pictures of the geogrpahics using satelites and putting them on the internet
|
|
|
hit
|
a perosn spotted on a website and is recoreded.
|
|
|
home page
|
the page that pops up right after you get onto the internet.
|
|
|
Hypertext markup language (HTML)
|
creates hyperlinked documents.
|
|
|
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
|
the language computers use to transmit hypertext documents over the Internet.
|
|
|
Internet protocol (IP) address
|
a numerical addressing system that uniquely identifies computers and networks linked to the Internet.
|
|
|
Internet service provider (ISP)
|
a company that provides connectivity to the Internet.
|
|
|
Mosaic
|
the design the internet is based on
|
|
|
Podcast
|
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.
|
|
|
portal
|
the way a computer takes to go to a site
|
|
|
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
|
a format originally developed to syndicate news articles online. This communication method now is used widely to share the contents of blogs.
|
|
|
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
|
a protocol for managing the security of message transmissions on the Internet.
|
|
|
social networking site
|
a site in which people may talk to each other by internet using text.
|
|
|
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
|
the address of a Web page, FTP site, audio stream, or other Internet resource.
|
|
|
Web 2.0
|
a new generation of Web-based services such as blogs, social-networking sites, wikis, and application software built into the site.
|
|
|
Web cache
|
a temporary storage area on your computer for collecting data.
|
|
|
Web site
|
a collection of related HTML-formatted Web pages located on the World Wide Web.
|
|
|
webapp
|
an appliaction that is used on the internet
|
|
|
wiki
|
a collaborative Web site that people can use to add, edit, remove, and organize Web page content.
|
