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+Ethics of internet
Ethics of Internet Safety Business
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Digital Literacy and Cyber citzenship | the ability to use information and communication technologies to find ,evaluate,create, and communicate information. |
| Cyber Bullying | the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending nasty messages. |
| 3. Internet | The global communication network that allows almost all computers worldwide to connect and exchange information. Some of the early impetus for such a network came from the U.S. government network Arpanet, starting in the 1960s. |
| 4. Ethics | moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior |
| 5. Pharming | the process of genetically modifying plants and animals so that they produce substances that may be used as pharmaceuticals. |
| 6. Phishing | the activity of defrauding an online account holder of financial information by posing as a legitimate company. |
| 7. Virus | an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host. |
| 8. Spyware | software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive |
| 9. Spam | irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients. |
| 10. Mousetrapping | s a technique used by some websites to keep visitors from leaving their website, either by launching an endless series of pop-up ads—known colloquially as a circle jerk—or by re-launching their website in a window that cannot be easily closed (sometimes t |
| 11. Clickjacking | the malicious practice of manipulating a website user's activity by concealing hyperlinks beneath legitimate clickable content, thereby causing the user to perform actions of which they are unaware. |
| 12. Hoax | a humorous or malicious deception |
| 13. Browser Hijacking | is a type of malware program that alters your computer's browser settings so that you are redirected to Web sites that you had no intention of visiting. |
| 14. Trojan Horse | a program designed to breach the security of a computer system while ostensibly performing some innocuous function. |
| 15. Malware | software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems |
| Chandler | Radford |
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