11. Also known as Short Message Service (SMS), a service available on most digital mobile phones and other mobile devices that permits the sending of short text messages. “ Ooh look, his first text message.” www.wikipedia.com Text Messaging (SMS)
12. Instant Messaging Also known as IM , a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet . www.wikipedia.com
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14. Blog A user-generated website where entries are made in journal style. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. www.wikipedia.com
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16. Podcast A media file that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds (RSS), for playback on portable media players and personal computers . www.wikipedia.com
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18. Wiki A website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
23. How is an Identity Stolen? Attempting to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Phishing Typically carried out using email or an instant message , and often directs users to a website.
24. A hacker 's attack aiming to redirect a website 's traffic to another (bogus) website . Pharming Pharming has become of major concern to businesses hosting ecommerce and online banking websites How is an Identity Stolen?
25. Spam Spam refers to junk e-mail or unsolicited e-mail. Similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam , Usenet newsgroup spam , Web search engine spam , spam in blogs , mobile phone messaging spam , etc.
26. Cyberbullying Bullying and harassment by use of electronic devices though means of e-mail , instant messaging , text messages , blogs , mobile phones , pagers , and websites .
32. Checking Your Computer for Sexually-Explicit Material Your computer has a powerful search function which can indicate if someone has visited pornographic Web sites. In Windows, click on the Start button in the lower left hand of your monitor, and slide up to search, and slide over to "files and folders." Search Your Computer
33. Checking Your Computer for Sexually-Explicit Material Select “All files and folders” from the window that appears. Search Your Computer Continued...
34. Search for Cookies You can inspect the folder where cookies are to look for any lewdly-named or suspicious cookies. Type in the word cookie in the search field and hit "search now." Make sure the "Look in" setting is set to look in your primary hard drive, usually "C," although you may want to repeat the search in any additional hard drives. Checking Your Computer for Sexually-Explicit Material
35. Most Web images are in a format that ends with either .jpg or .gif, such as "bicycle.jpg" or "vase.gif". When you view a Web site, these images are stored in various places on your hard drive. To find all such images in your hard drive, put an asterisk followed by a period in front of the name of the image format in the search window. Search for Images Checking Your Computer for Sexually-Explicit Material
36. Open your web browser (Internet Explorer) and select “Tools” and “Internet Options” Search Your Browser Another Way to Check Your Computer for Sexually-Explicit Material
37. Select “Settings” from the “Browsing history” section. Search Your Browser Continued... Another Way to Check Your Computer for Sexually-Explicit Material
38. Select “View files” and a list of cookies and picture files will appear and show the web sites where the files originated. *Note: if there are very few of them, someone is most likely deleting them from the Temporary Internet Files folder. Another Way to Check Your Computer for Sexually-Explicit Material Search Your Browser Continued...
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