Home > Industry/Domain > Internet > Internet security

Internet security

Definitions for common terms and phrases related to security threats, vulnerabilities, and technology.

Contributors in Internet security

Internet security

browser hijacker

Internet; Internet security

A browser hijacker (sometimes called hijackware) 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 ...

Anonymous

Internet; Internet security

A group of hackers that grew out of an anarchic message board on the website 4Chan. The loosely organized group of "hacktivists," which typically aligns itself with liberal causes, has brought down ...

Facebook tracking

Internet; Internet security

The tracking of users' online activities once they have visited a Facebook site even after they are logged off from Facebook’s main site. The Facebook tracking uses software cookies deposited on the ...

SSL Certificates

Internet; Internet security

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a security protocol created by Netscape which has been an international standard on the Internet for exchanging critical or private information between a website and the ...

public key

Internet; Internet security

The nonsecret half of a cryptographic key pair that is used with a public key algorithm.

private key

Internet; Internet security

The secret half of a cryptographic key pair that is used with a public key algorithm.

header

Internet; Internet security

An information structure that precedes and identifies the information that follows.

Featured blossaries

Khmer Rouge

Category: Politics   1 1 Terms

ROAD TO AVONLEA SERIES

Category: Entertainment   2 21 Terms