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Biometric Security Measures
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A high-level method of security that matches a fingerprint, voice pattern, or the iris or retina...
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Filtering
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Process that can be used to cut down on or eliminate most junk mail
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Hoax
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An attempt to deceive an audience into believing something false is real
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Fraud
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Dishonestly obtaining money, property, information, or other things of value, or to cause loss....
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Logic Bomb
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Virus triggered by the appearance or disappearance of specified data
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Netiquette
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Refers to the good manners and proper behaviors when communicating through electronic media
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Phishing
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Using e-mail messages for personal information scams
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Pyramid Schemes
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Illicit business model where profits are based on the investor’s ability to recruit other...
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RDF Summary
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Format originally developed to facilitate the syndication of news articles and now widely used...
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Spam
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Junk e-mail
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Tagging
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Used in blogs and other informational sites to simplify the search process
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Teleconferencing
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A telecommunications system that permits the live exchange and sharing of information between...
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Time Bomb
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A virus that does not cause its damage until a certain date or until the system has been booted...
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Trojan Horse
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A virus that does something different from what it is expected to do
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Urban Legend
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Stories that at one time could have been partially true, but have grown from constant retelling...
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Virus
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A program that has been written, usually by a hacker, to cause corruption of data on a computer
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Worm
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Virus that makes many copies of itself, resulting in the consumption of system resources that...
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ActiveX
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A programming interface developed by Microsoft for Windows. This set of rules controls Windows...
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Client
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A type of computer program that makes a service request from a server
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Cookie
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A small text file that Web sites put on your computer to store information about you and your...
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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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Identifies a computer or Web site on the Internet
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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
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Used to upload (send) files from one computer to another and retrieve (download) files from...
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Geographic Imaging
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A type of Web site that uses technology to change imagery of the Earth’s surface into valuable...
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Hit
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The number of Web sites returned by a search engine based on your keywords
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Home Page
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The first page that appears in the browser when you visit a Web site
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
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A text-based program that creates hyperlinked documents
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
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A language computers use to transmit hypertext documents over the Internet
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Internet Protocol (IP) Address
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A numerical addressing system that uniquely identifies computers and networks linked to the...
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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...
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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...
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Portal
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A Web site that features useful content, but also contains links to other sites
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Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
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Also known as Rich Site Summary and RDF Summary, is a format originally developed to syndicate...
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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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A type of Web site where an online community provides interaction for groups of people who...
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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The address of a Web page, FTP site, audio stream, or other Internet resource
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Web 2.0
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Also called the participatory Web, this term has several definitions, although the most popular...
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Web Cache
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A temporary storage area on your computer for collecting data
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Web Site
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A collection of related HTML-formatted Web pages located on the World Wide Web
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Webapp
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Software application you can access with your Web browser
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