Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Worm

A worm is a computer program that uses computer networks to send copies of itself to other nodes.

Urban Legend

An urban legend is a story that appears mysterious and is usually false.

Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse is a program that is said to get rid of viruses on the computer, when it introduces viruses to your computer.

Time bomb

A time bomb is a type of program that is programmed to release a virus onto the computer system or network.

Teleconferencing

A teleconferencing is a conference with a group of people that are in different places.

Tagging

A tag is a command inserted ina document that specifies how the document or a portion of a document should be formatted.

RDF summary

RDF summary is an format used to syndicate news, blog posts and other content among different web sites.

Pyramid Schemes

A pyramid scheme is an illegal investment scheme in which investors are promised impossibly high returns on their investments.

Phishing

Researchers detail how Phishing kits work and how the creators rip-off the users. (IMG:J.Anderson)Phishing is an e-mail fraud scam conducted for the purposes or identity theft.

Netiquette

Netiquette is a set of rules of etiquette that apply when communicating over computer networks.

Logic Bomb

A logic bomb is a virus that is hidden until it is a triggered when certain specific conditions are made.

Hoax

A hoax is a act intended to decieve or defraud.

Fraud

Fraud is the act of deception carried for the purpose of unfair.

Filtering

Filtering is when a device lets the frequency spectrum signals pass through it.

Windows Mail

Windows mail is a e-mail and newsgroup client in Windows Vista.

User agent

User agent is a client program that is used to access servers on a network.

Text Messaging

Text messaging are messages that are sent from one mobile phone to another.

Spam

Spam is sent unwanted junk e-mails.

Signature

A digital signature is made to guarantee that the person sending the message really is who they claim to be.

Packets

A packet is one unit of binary data capable of being routed through a computer network.

Mailing List

A mailing list is a list of names and addresses to which advertising material is mailed.

Instant Messaging

Instant messaging is a way of communicating between two or more people using the same client.

e-mail Address

An e-mail address is an address that can identify who you are when you send a email.

Electronic mail (e-mail)

E-mail is a system of sending and recieving messages over the internet.

Distribution List

A distribtuion list is a list of names to whom a communication should be sent.

Attachment

An attachment is a file that is attached to an email.

Archiving

Archiving is a collection of computer files that have been packaged together for backup.

Address Book

A address book is a file of email-addresses that is maintained in a email program.

Secure Sockets Layer

Secure sockets layer is a set of rules for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet.

Feed

Feed is a general term for the electronic distribution of text, audio, or video.

Directories

Directories are books with alphabetical lists of names and addresses.

Copyright

A copyright is the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something.

Boolean logic

Boolean logic is a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole.

Blog

A blog is a journal that can be edited, read, and written on-line.

Wiki

Wiki is a website that allows multiple users to create, modify and organize web page content a collaborative manner.

Webapp

A webapp is a application that is accessed via a web browser on the internet.

Website

A website is a computer connected to the Internet that maintains a series of of web pages.

Web Cache

A web cache stores copies of documents passing through it.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the second generation of the world wide web.

Uniform Resource Locator

Uniform resource locator is the address of a website on the world wide web.

Social Networking Site

A social networking site is a site that focuses on building a social relation with people.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

Really simple syndication allows you to collect news and postings from newspapers, blogs, libraries, etc and to read them in one place.

Portal

A portal is a website or service that offers a broad array of resources and services.

Podcast

A podcast is a audio or video file that is made available on the Internet for download and playback using a mobile device or a computer.

Mosaic

A mosaic is a kind of art made of several small pieces of stone and glass.

Internet Service Provider

A internet service provider is a type of company that gives internet services for a fee in return.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Internet Protocol Address

A internet protocol address is a numerical label that identifies a computer thats connected with the internet.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Hypertext transfer protocol is a protocol to transfer hypertext information and requests between servers and browsers.

Hypertext Markup Language (HMTL)

Hypertext Markup Language is a protocol which includes rules that are used to encode and format text, animation, graphics, sound and other types of files on the World Wide Web.

Home Page

A homepage is the opening page of the web site.