Friday, February 25, 2011

Secure Sockets Layer

The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet.
Source http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci343029,00.html

Feed

A web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.
Source wikipedia

Directories

A book with many names and information about people or objects.

Copyright

A set of rights given to a person who produced something and he has all entitlement to the piece.

Boolean Logic

  A complete system for logical operations, used often since popularization of mathematical logic and discussions concerning the foundations of mathematics. 
Source Wikipedia

Blog

A blog is a specific kind of website that allows one person to talks or explains a specific thing inside the blog.

Wiki

A wiki is a website that holds information along with the ability to have other people edit the information.

WebApp

It is an Application that can be access from a browser.

Website

A site that allows use of internet in the world wide web that may contain content like images and videos.

Web Cache

is 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 through it; subsequent requests may be satisfied from the cache if certain conditions are met.
Source Wikipedia

Web 2.0

It is associated with web applications that facilitate interactive systemic biases, interoperability, user-centered design, and developing the World Wide Web.
Source Wikipedia

Uniform Resource Locator

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

Social Networking Site

A way people in a society communicate with others in a area.

Really Simple Syndication

RSS  is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
Source: Wikipedia

Portal

A site on the web that allows and enter the internet as providing content.

Podcast

A podcast  is a series of digital media files  that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication.
Source Wikipedia

Mosiac

It is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web.
Source Wikipedia

ISP Internet Service Provider

A company that gives internet service to an extent.

IP Address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a usually numerical label assigned to each device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
Source Wikipedia

HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)

It is a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
Source Wikipedia

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

A set of tags and rules for using them in making hyper text documents. 
Source: Google/ Define html

Home Page

The opening page of a internet explorer.

Hit

A match of data in a search string against data that one is searching.
Source:free dictionary

Geographic Imaging

Act of Storing images of certain geographic landmarks.

File Transfer Protocol

A set of rules that lets users send or transfer files.

Domain

The suffix of a internet address which represents the section of the internet.
Source: Dictionary

Digital Certificate

A Digital Certification is an electronic document which uses a digital signature to bind together a public key with an identity -- information such as the name of a person or an organization, their address. 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_certification

Cookie

A cookie, also known as a web cookie, browser cookie, and HTTP cookie, is a piece of text stored on a user's computer by their web browser.
Source: Wikipedia

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29

Active X

  Active X is a framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language independent way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX

Saturday, February 19, 2011

21) RDF Summary

RSS stands for RDF Site Summary, it provides website content.


http://www.techterms.com/definition/rss

29) Worm

It is a Malicious software that keeps copying itself, it also does not need to attach itself to a program.

24) Teleconferencing

A method of talking to communicating with other people that have remote machines.

28) Virus

It is a malicious software that attacks everything in a computer.

27) Urban Legend

An urban Legend is a legend that has been believed and has not been proven true.

23) Tagging

 A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)

26) Trojan Horse

A trojan horse is a virus or any type of malicious software hiding inside a software that may look safe.

25) Time Bomb

A computer program that has been written in such a way that it will stop functioning after a certain fixed date or time is reached.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_bomb_(software)

19)Phishing

A way to get access to important information that is taken by a fake website people believe is real.

18) Netiquette

Netiquette is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to blogs and forums.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

20) Pyramid Scheme

It is scheme that normally one person manages, who gets money from the people without them realizing.

15) Fraud

A form of deception that helps someone get information or to do damage on someone.

16) Hoax

A hoax is something people believe but is then later found to be fake.

17) Logic Bomb

A 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.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_bomb

12) User Agent

A user agent is a client application implementing a network protocol used in communications within a client–server distributed computing system.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent

14) Filtering

Checking over a packet of data to see if there are malicious viruses. 

8) Packets

Formatted Unit of Data carried a packet mode computer network.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_packet

13)Windows Mail

Windows Mail is an application that windows vista managed which got surpassed by Windows Live.

9) Signature

A type signature defines the inputs and outputs for a function, subroutine or method.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_signature

10) Spam

Junk mail sent to an email in a large amount.