Chap 10
communication
1. Emails are said to be vulnerable to both passive and active attacks.
2. Passive attacks include the release of email material to other users without your consent
3. Active attacks can also involve viruses or phishing attacks
4. carbon copies (cc)
5. blind carbon copy (bcc)
6. Forwarding of emails should be treated with great care
7. internet service providers (ISPs)
8. Spam and phishing emails can potentially contain malicious attachments
9. Any unsolicited email sent over the internet is regarded as spam
10. Spam can affect many online operations where links are posted within videos which send users
to another website.
11. The word internet comes from inter connected network,
12. World Wide Web (WWW)
13. hypertext transfer protocol (http)
14. hypertext markup language (HTML)
15. uniform resource locators (URLs)
16. transmission protocols (TCP)
17. internet protocols (IP)
18. Intranets are safer because there is less chance of external hacking or viruses.
19. Virtual private network (VPN).
20. The term intranet comes from the phrase: internal restricted access network.
21. Web blogs (blogs) are personal internet journals where the writer (blogger) will type in their
observations on a topic
22. Microblogs are similar to blogs, but are most often used on social networking sites to make short,
frequent posts.
23. Wikis are web applications or websites that allow any user to create and edit their web pages
using any web browser
24. Social networking sites focus on building online communities of users who share the same
interests and activities
25. Forums is a moderated forum refers to an online discussion forum in which all the posts are
checked by an administrator before they are allowed to be posted.
26. internet service provider (ISP)
27. A web browser is software that allows a user to display a web page on their computer screen
28. File transfer protocol (FTP)
29. Secure sockets layer (SSL)
30. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)