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- TCP / IP
- Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol – A generic term referring to the communication protocols used on the Internet.
- Traces
- Voir Log
- Trojan Horse
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A program being run without the user's knowledge and designed so that a third party can have access to the victim's computer for malicious purposes.
A lure is used to introduce it into the computer via a game or an attractive utility, hence its name from Greek mythology and the subterfuge used by Ulysses to deceive the Trojans.
To protect yourself, do not activate suspicious attached files or software and install a firewall to monitor inputs/outputs. - Update
- The action of installing patches or a newer version of software.
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator - A URL is a string of characters indicating the location of a resource on the Internet and the means of accessing it. Thus, the URL of the Espace Sécurité BNP Paribas is «http://www.bnpparibas.com/securitycenter» where «http» indicates that it is accessed using the HTTP protocol.
- Web
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The Web (synonym: World Wide Web) is a system for displaying and publishing documents on the Internet, in a simple standard manner.
The Web was invented in 1989 much later than the Internet by Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), in Geneva, Switzerland.
This invention popularised the Internet among the general public.
Voir A short history of the Internet - Wi-Fi
- Contraction of Wireless Fidelity. A type of wireless home network. Communications between the computer and the WiFi access point use radio waves. Wi-Fi is an international standard describing the characteristics of a local wireless network based on standards 802.11b and 802.11g, which only differ in the throughput offered (11 Mb/s and 54 Mb/s respectively).
- Worm
- Worms are malicious computer programs able to replicate themselves and to run themselves autonomously; they do not need support files, and spread themselves via the network, usually by exploiting security flaws.
