Understanding Computer chapter 1, 8, 9

A(n) ____ is a collection of an individual's work accessible through a Web site.

The ____ is the most commonly used Internet search type.

Because she is an avid baseball fan, Brenda has subscribed to the ____ feed of her local team so that news abouther team is delivered to her as it becomes available.

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content.

Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

Most search sites use a ____—a software program—in conjunction with a huge database of information about Webpages to help visitors find Web pages that contain the information they are seeking.

limit search results to just those pages with a specific Web page title, URL, text, or top-level domain.

To navigate to a new Web page for which you know the URL, type that URL in the browser's ____ and pressEnter.

There are a number of special Web pages, called ____, available to help you locate what you are looking for on theInternet.

Sarah has hired a programmer to create a Web page for her business. What type of programming language will theprogrammer use?

There are independent Web sites (such as the ____ Web site) that report on the validity of current online rumorsand stories

____ refers to guidelines for online behavior

Ultraportables conforming to Intel's standards can be marketed as ____.

A ____ is a collection of hardware and other devices that are connected together so that users can share hardware,software, and data, as well as electronically communicate with each other

Computing technologies make it possible to have ____, traditional appliances with some type of built-in computer orcommunications technology.

The term ____ refers to the programs or instructions used to tell the computer hardware what to do.

Hollerith's machine was used to process the 1890 U.S. Census data and was able to complete the task in ____,instead of the decade it usually took to process the data by hand

Common input devices include the keyboard and ____.

____ occurs when data is entered into the computer

Two of the most common types of communications hardware are ____ and network adapters.

____ are unique numeric or text-based addresses used to identify resources accessible through the Internet, such ascomputers, Web pages, and people

A ____ is loosely defined as a very small device that has some built-in computing or Internet capability.

Hybrid notebook-tablet computers are also called ____.

____ refers to typing your entire e-mail message or discussion group post using only capital letters

A(n) ____ is a medium-sized computer used to host programs and data for a small network

A personal computer (PC) or ____ is a small computer system designed to be used by one person at a time

With the advent of ____, integrated circuits incorporating many transistors and electronic circuits on a single tinysilicon chip, allowed computers to be even smaller and more reliable than earlier computers.

Similar to the way an IP address or domain name uniquely identifies a computer on the Internet, a ____ uniquelyidentifies a Web page

When data is processed into a meaningful form, it becomes ____.

In a nutshell, blogs are designed for primarily one-way running communications, while ____ are intended to bemodified by others.

Brenda also orders movies and television through the Internet via a(n) ____ provider, which allows users todownload video for a small fee.

____ is the most widely used type of home broadband connection, with over half of the home broadband market.

____, as it relates to the Internet, encompasses what information about individuals is available, how it is used, and bywhom

Common online investing services include the ability to set up a(n) ____ that displays the status of the stocks youspecify.

Today, the standard term for placing telephone calls over any type of data network (including the Internet, as well asa LAN, WAN, or other type of data network) is ____.

Every day, Anthony makes a new post to his personal ____, which is a Web page that displays entries inchronological order.

____ sites allow you to generate map and driving directions and provide access to specific types of usefulinformation

Online shopping and online investing are examples of ____.

____ is a new alternative for homes and businesses today in areas where there is fiber optic cabling available all theway to the building.

____ is an online news tool designed for facilitating the delivery of news articles, podcasts, and other contentregularly published to a Web site.

____ refers to any instruction delivered via the Web

Many Web pages today use ____ —small text files that are stored on your hard drive by a Web server, typically theone associated with the Web page being viewed—to identify return visitors and their preferences.

____ are businesses or other organizations that provide Internet access to others, typically for a fee.

____ are companies that manage and distribute Web-based software services to customers over the Internet.

Anthony regularly visits several popular political ____, which are Web pages designed to facilitate writtendiscussions between people on specific subjects

To determine if the information from a Web page can be trusted, you should evaluate both the ____ and the source.

____ is charged with such responsibilities as IP address allocation and domain name management

____ cookies are cookies placed on your hard drive by a company other than the one associated with the Web pagethat you are viewing—typically a Web advertising company

One objective of the ____ project was to create a computer network that would allow researchers located indifferent places to communicate with each other.

One advantage of a dial-up connection is ____.

Internet Explorer users can view and/or delete cookies and other temporary files by using the ____ dialog box

Conventional dial-up connects to the Internet at a maximum of ____.

Direct Internet connections are typically ____ connections

The primary infrastructure that makes up the ____ is typically owned by communications companies, such astelephone and cable companies

Phishing schemes may use a technique called ____, which is setting up spoofed Web sites with addresses slightlydifferent from legitimate sites

The ____, implemented in 2001, grants federal authorities expanded surveillance and intelligence-gathering powers,such as broadening their ability to obtain the real identity of Internet users and to intercept Internet communications

Like a computer virus, a ____ is a malicious program designed to cause damage.

software can control which devices can be connected to an employee's computer

A booming area of computer crime involves online fraud, theft, scams, and related activities collectively referred toas ____

A computer that is controlled by a hacker or other computer criminal is referred to as a ____.

Repeated threats or other harassment carried out online between adults is referred to as ____.

The best protection against many dot cons is ____.

A computer ____ spreads by creating copies of its code and sending those copies to other computers via a network.

Advocates of ____ state that, unless individuals or businesses protect their access points, they are welcoming othersto use them.

The term ____ refers to accessing someone else's unsecured WiFinetwork from the hacker's current location(such as inside his or her home, outside a Wi-Fi hotspot location, or near a local business).

When a digitally signed document is received, the recipient's computer uses the sender's ____ key to verify thedigital signature.

Melissa also decided to use a(n) ____, which continuously monitors and analyzes the traffic allowed to and from thenetwork to detect possible attacks as they are occurring and block them.

A ____ provides a secure private tunnel from the user's computer through the Internet to another destination and ismost often used to provide remote employees with secure access to a company network

____ is a generic term that refers to any type of malicious software.

____ is a type of scam that uses spoofed domain names to obtain personal information for use in fraudulentactivities.

Antivirus programs are usually set up to automatically download new ____ from their associated Web site on aregular basis.

The green color of the Address bar in the accompanying figure indicates that the site is using a valid ____ SSLcertificate.

The technician tells Fernando that his computer has a ____, which might have gotten into Fernando's computerwhen he downloaded a free computer game from the Internet.

Some Webbasedencrypted emailsystems—such as the popular free ____ service—require both the sender andrecipient to have accounts through that system

____, the most commonly used type of possessed knowledge, are secret words or character combinationsassociated with an individual

To explain acceptable computer use to their employees, students, or other users, many organizations and educationalinstitutions publish guidelines for behavior, often called ____.

A ____ is a malicious program that masquerades as something else—usually as some type of application program

____ occurs when someone obtains enough information about a person to be able to masquerade as that person fora variety of activities—usually to buy products or services in that person's name

One emerging type of Trojan horse is called a ____-Access Trojan.

A computer ____ is a software program that is installed without the permission or knowledge of the computer user,that is designed to alter the way a computer operates, and that can replicate itself to infect any new media it hasaccess to.

____ includes any acts of malicious destruction to a computer or computer resource

A ____ is a security system that essentially creates a wall between a computer or network and the Internet in orderto protect against unauthorized access.

____ uses a single secret key to both encrypt and decrypt the file or message.

____ identify users by a particular unique biological characteristic

One of the first items that Melissa installed was a(n) ____, which checks all incoming and outgoing traffic and onlyallows authorized traffic to pass through

The ____ includes provisions to combat cyberterrorism, including protecting ISPs against lawsuits from customersfor revealing private information to law enforcement agencies

____ access systems use physical objects for identification purposes and they are frequently used to control accessto facilities and computer systems

____ refers to the act of breaking into a computer or network.