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CSS103(2)
Week 2 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Browsing | the process of performing a serch of online categories in order to find a website or web page |
| Citation | A qoute from a larger work |
| Credibility | Whether or not a source provides reliable, accurate information, checked and verified by experts |
| Domain name | The words or numbers that identify a website (also known as IP addresses) |
| e-commerce | The buying and selling of goods online |
| Home page | The first page in a group of pages on a website that describes the site's purpose and provides the navigational structure for moving through the website |
| Internet Service Provider (ISP) | A company that sells Internet connectivity to individuals |
| Keyword | A term or group of terms used to find information on the web |
| Malware | Computer software that works as an independent program that infects a computer's files and programs after being downloaded from what looks like a trusted source |
| Netiquette | Informal rules of behavior for communicating on the web |
| New media | Content not traditionally delivered in digital form that is now found online (music, movies, newspapers, or books) |
| Phishing | The practice of using spam e-mail to elicit a response and obtain a computer user's private information |
| Rootkit | A computer virus that attacks a computer's internal storage system |
| Search engine | an automated database that delivers a list of links as a response to a specific keyword request from the user |
| Social engineering | The usually criminal practice of manipulating a person into providing sensitive information online |
| Social networks | An online community |
| Trojan horse | A computer virus disguised as a normal program that infects a computer after being downloaded from an e-mail, pop-up ad, or downloaded software |
| World Wide Web | A collection of Internet sites that provide text, grapics, sound, video, and other digital content |