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Cyber Security Glossary
The topics of Cyber Security and Data Privacy are gaining a lot of ground over the past few years.
With millions of people affected by incidents such as the large scale hack at Equifax, Under Armour’s MyFitnessPal or the Ashley Madison debacle more people are interested in learning about how they can protect themselves. However, as long as computers and the internet exist, we are at risk of having our digital data compromised and manipulated.
The first steps to protecting your family online are by understanding how your devices work is not as hard as it sounds. At Web Safety Advice we have spent a lot of time compiling guides for everyday people to be able to protect their personal and business data, throughout those guides we use some common terms regularly again and again.
In this glossary are links to some of those terms, examples, illustrations, and their simplified descriptions:
What Are VPN Logs?
What Is HTTPS
What is SSL
What is Ransomware?
What is Browser Fingerprinting
What Is Online Identity Theft?
Two Factor Authentication
What Is A VPN? – Beginners Guide To Virtual Private Networks
What is Encryption
What Are PPP and PPPoE?
What Is Dynamic DNS?
What Is Cryptography?
What Are Data Packets?
What is Ping?
What Is FTP and How Does It Work?
What is a Web Browser
What is a Cookie?
What is the “IP” in IP Address?
What Is a MAC Address?
What is DHCP?
What is the “IP” in IP Address?
IP is something that you have seen associated with your computer’s internet connection. For … Read more
What is a Web Browser?
A browser is a software application that allows people to visit and display information … Read more
What Is Ping?
Like many other aspects of computing and the internet, the term “ping” was devised … Read more
What Is Cryptography?
Cryptography is an English word coined from the Greek root words for “hidden” (krpytos) … Read more
What Is Online Identity Theft?
You’re probably already familiar with the concept of identity theft. It’s when someone steals … Read more
What Are PPP and PPPoE?
When discussing computer networks, PPP stands for Point-to-Point Protocol, and PPPoE stands for Point-to-Point … Read more
What is Ransomware?
You turn on your computer or laptop and receive a message saying all of … Read more
What is HTPPS?
Everything You Need To Know About HTTPS Digital security has become increasingly more popular … Read more
What Is a MAC Address?
Sometimes written as a “Mac” address, a MAC address (pronounced “mack”) is a unique … Read more
What is a Cookie?
When the public internet as we know it first began, websites were little more … Read more
What Is FTP and How Does It Work?
The acronym FTP stands for “File Transfer Protocol.” At its heart, FTP is a … Read more
What Is Dynamic DNS?
Dynamic DNS is a computer network term that means dynamic DNS (domain name service). … Read more
What Are Data Packets?
When most people talk about computers, networking, and the internet, the general term “data” … Read more