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Keylogger: are local software keyloggers programmed with an added feature to transmit recorded data from the target computer to a monitor at a remote location .


Private Key: signatures made with the no longer trusted to be actually private key after time T

Public Key: a cryptographic approach which involves the use of asymmetric key algorithms instead of or in addition to symmetric key algorithms.

Repetitive strain injury: believed by many to be caused due to lifestyle without ergonomic care

Secure Sockets Layer: protocol allows client/server applications to communicate across a network in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping and tampering

Sniffer: capture traffic on all or just parts of the network from a single machine within the network

Spyware: type of malware that can be installed on computers and collects little bits of information at a time about users without their knowledge.

Strong Password: a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting guessing and brute-force attacks.

Transport Layer Security: are cryptographic protocols that provide communications security over the Internet

IC3 Certification Exam: is to validate fundamental computer skills and knowledge through performance-based testing.

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Critical Thinking: in its broadest sense has been described as "purposeful reflective judgment concerning what to believe or what to do.

Digital Cash: Electronic money systems
In technical terms, electronic money is an online representation, or a system of debits and credits, used to exchange value within another system, or within itself as a stand alone system.

Electronic Commerce: consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet

Keyless Entry System: A remote keyless system can include both a remote keyless entry system (RKE) and a remote keyless ignition system (RKI).

Online Learning: E-learning comprises all forms of electronically supported learning and teaching

Telecommuting: a work arrangement in which employees enjoy flexibility in working location and hours.

Browser Hijacking: It first redirects homepages to its website and begins to collect information on the computer.

Brute force Attacks: a strategy that can in theory be used against any encrypted data by an attacker who is unable to take advantage

Hacking: The controversy is usually based on the assumption that the term originally meant someone messing about with something in a positive sense, that is, using playful cleverness to achieve a goal.

Hardware firewall: Routers assign a unique internal address to each connected unit.

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Public Domain: comprises copyright-free works: anyone can use them in any way and for any purpose. Proper attribution to the author

Related Search: software program that searches a database and gathers and reports information that contains or is related to specified terms.

Search Engine: is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers.

Shared bookmark: a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online.

Trademark: a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity

Wiki: a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text

Wildcard character: a special character that represents one or more other characters

Business-to-Business: describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer.

Business-to-consumer: describes activities of businesses serving end consumers with products and/or services.

Business-to-government: a derivative of B2B marketing and often referred to as a market definition of "public sector marketing" which encompasses marketing products

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Indexes: a system used to make finding information easier.

Keywords: the words that are used to reveal the internal structure of an author's reasoning.

Libel: defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures

Link List: contains a null reference

Math Symbols: a listing of common symbols found within all branches of mathematics

News Feed: a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

Peer-to-Peer: computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or work loads between peers.

Phrase Searching: is used to search for words as phrases.

Plagiarism: is defined in dictionaries as "the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language

Podcatcher: a computer program used to download various media via an RSS or XML feed.

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Web Cache: the caching of web documents (e.g., HTML pages, images) to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag. A web cache stores copies of documents passing

Website: a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed

Webapp: In earlier types of cloud computing, each application had its own client program which served as its user interface and had to be separately installed on each user

Wiki: is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text

Blog: (a blend of the term web log is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary

Boolean Logic: a complete system for logical operations, used in many systems. It was named after George Boole, who first defined an algebraic system of logic
Copyright: a set of exclusive rights granted by the law of a jurisdiction to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy

Directories: A typical file system may contain thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of folders.

Feed: a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

Secure Sockets Layer: Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that "provide communications security over the Internet TLS

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol: a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication

Internet Protocol Address: a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet

Internet Service Provider: a company that offers its customers access to the Internet

Mosaic: the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials

Podcast: a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication.

Portal: a general term describing an opening in the walls of a building, gate or fortification, and especially a grand entrance to an important structure

Really Simple Syndication: a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio

Social Networking Site: an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people

Uniform Resource Locator: a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.

Web 2.0: commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive systemic biases, interoperability, user-centered design and developing the World Wide Web.

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ActiveX: a framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language independent way.

Client: is an application or system that accesses a remote service on another computer system, known as a server, by way of a network The term was first applied to devices

Cookie: a web cookie, browser cookie, and HTTP cookie, is a piece of text stored by a user 's web browser

Digital Certificate: a public key certificate (also known as a digital certificate or identity certificate) is an electronic document which uses a digital signature to bind a public key

Domain: an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet.

File Transfer Protocol: is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet.

Geographic Imaging: division of the National Geographic Society (NGS) headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA, is a stock photography agency

Hit: a strike (attack), the act of hitting someone or something to cause physical harm.

Home Page: has various related meanings to do with web sites: It most often refers to the initial or main web page of a web site, sometimes called the front page

Hypertext markup Language: is the predominant markup language for web pages.

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Pyramid Schemes: The network marketing or multi-level marketing business has become associated with pyramid schemes as "Some schemes may purport to sell a product

RDF Summary: an open format by the RSS-DEV Working Group, again standing for RDF Site Summary. RSS 1.0 is an RDF format like RSS 0.90

Spam: Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.

Tagging: Tagging systems open to the public are also open to tag spam, in which people apply an excessive number of tags or unrelated tags to an item

Teleconferencing: Terms such as audio conferencing, telephone conferencing and phone conferencing are also sometimes used to refer to teleconferencing.

Time Bomb: is an explosive device whose detonation is triggered by a timer.

Trojan Horse: A Trojan horse, or Trojan, is malware that appears to perform a desirable function for the user prior to run or install but instead facilitates unauthorized access of the user

Urban Legend: An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories usually believed by their tellers to be true.

Virus: A computer infection created by another user of a computer

Worm: A really bad type of virus that can "eat" Your saved files.

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Spam: Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.

Text Messaging: Text messaging or texting refers to the exchange of brief written messages between fixed-line phone or mobile phone and fixed or portable devices over a network.

User Agent: In computing, a user agent is a client application implementing a network protocol used in communications within a client–server distributed computing system.

Windows Mail: Windows Mail is an e-mail and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail.

Filtering: Collaborative filtering (CF) is the process of filtering for information or patterns using techniques involving collaboration among multiple agents, viewpoints, data sources

Fraud: a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent.

Hoax: a deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as truth.

Logic Bomb: is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met.

Netiquette: is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks

Phishing: In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card

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Address Book: An address book or a name and address book (NAB) is a book or a database used for storing entries called contacts.

Archiving: Archives; List of archives; Manuscript processing; Preservation (library and archival science)

Attachment: Attachment theory is a psychological, evolutionary, and ethological theory concerning relationships between humans.

Distribution list: is a term sometimes used for a function of email clients where lists of email addresses are used to email everyone on the list at once.

Electronic Mail: Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks

e-mail address: An email address identifies an email mailbox to which email messages may be delivered. An example format of an email address is lewis@example.net

Instant Messaging: Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time direct text-based communication between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared software

Mailing List: A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients.

Packets: a packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet mode computer network.

Signature: is a handwritten (and sometimes stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname or even a simple "X" that a person writes on

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Modem: A modem (mo dulator-dem odulator) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information

Node: is a connection point, either a redistribution point or a communication endpoint

Peer-Peer Network: Peers make a portion of their resources, such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth

Proxy Server: a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources

Public Switched Telephone Network: The public switched telephone network (PSTN) also referred to as the plain old telephone service (POTS) is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks.

Router: A router is an electronic device that intercepts signals on a computer network. The router determines where the signals have to go.

Server: a computer program running as a service, to serve the needs or requests of other programs

Server Operating System: The operating system was first released in 1999 as Mac OS X Server 1.0, with a desktop-oriented version (Mac OS X v10.0) following in March 2001.

T-1 Line: A T1 span can have up to -130 Volts of DC power superimposed on the associated four wire cable pairs to line or "Span" power line repeaters

Wide Area Network: A wide area network (WAN) is a computer network that covers a broad area (i.e., any network whose communications links cross metropolitan, regional, or national boundaries

WiMax: is a telecommunications protocol that provides fixed and fully mobile Internet access.

Wireless Internet Service Provider: Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) are Internet service providers with networks built around wireless networking.

Wireless LAN: A wireless LAN is actually an extension of a LAN or even a WAN

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Biometric Security Measures: measures how well a biometric resists aging and other variance over time.

Cable Modem: A cable modem is a type of network bridge and modem that provides bi-directional data communication via radio frequency channels on a HFC and RFoG infrastructure.

Client: A client: is an application or system that accesses a remote service on another computer system, known as a server, by way of a network

Client/ Server Network: Often clients and servers communicate over a computer network on separate hardware, but both client and server may reside in the same system.

Communication Channels: A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

Digital Subscriber Line: Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network.

Extranet: An extranet is a computer network that allows controlled access from the outside, for specific business or educational purposes.

Firewall: A firewall is a part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications.

Hacker: a hacker is a person who breaks into computers and computer networks, either for profit or motivated by the challenge.

Hub: Originally, the term hub referred to the central part of a wheel.

Internet: The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.

Intranet: An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol technologies to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system

Local Area Conector: If your computer has a network adapter that is connected to a local area network, you do not need to manually create a LAN connection