Flaming is posting offensive content online, mostly in forums, chat rooms or social networking groups with the intent to cause arguments or heated debates or simply to offend others. [The Digital Classroom Resource].
Bitcoin is a digital cryptocurrency. It is a decentralized currency, which means that no bank owns it, and uses peer-to-peer networks for creating payments. [The Digital Classroom Resource].
Spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone other than the original source. It is a popular tactic used in phishing, because people are more […]
A driver is software that allows a computer to interact and control a device that has been connected to the computer. The software contains the necessary information pertaining to the device that the computer requires […]
A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. [The Digital Classroom Resource]. […]
Spooling is the process of placing data in a temporary location to be held until it is ready to be processed by the computer or a user. This process is most commonly used when printing. […]
A.I. is the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. [The Digital Classroom Resource].
Surfing describes the act of browsing the Internet by going from one web page to another web page using hyperlinks in a web browser. [The Digital Classroom Resource].
A cookie is a small text file saved onto your computer by a website that stores information regarding your visit to the site, such as your shopping preferences. They are harmless to your computer and can […]
To take a spyware or virus-infected file out of harm’s way by stripping its rights or by moving it to a folder that cannot be easily accessible by regular file management utilities. It is thereby […]
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