Cyber Safety Vocab Flashcards
To stop a computer reaching something on the internet, to stop a program running, or to stop someone from contacting you on a chart service.
Block
A special place on the internet where you can chat to one or more people.
Chat Room
Bullying using technology, such as computers and mobile phones.
Cyber Bullying
A program that can protect your computer from being accessed when you’re online.
Firewall
When a child abuser tries to start a relationship online with a child for unlawful purposes.
Grooming
The page that appears when you type in an organization’s web address without any file name. Also used to mean someone’s personal web page.
Home Page
Supervising what goes on in a chat room, newsgroup, social network or other online service.
Moderation
A word or series of letters, numbers and characters that ONLY you know, which you use to log on to computers, networks or online services.
Password
An attempt to trick people into visiting malicious websites by sending emails or other messages which pretend to come from banks or online shops. Look like the real thing but they aren’t and can be used to steal identity information.
Phishing
When a young person takes an intimate or indecent image of themselves and sends it to their friends by mobile phone.
Sexting
Websites such as My Space, Facebook, Bebo, & Twitter that aim to build online communities of people and provide users with different ways of communication.
Social Networking Sites
Short for “Uniform Resource Locator” or web address. Has three parts: http (tells the browser this is a web address); server (name of computer to be contacted); and /page (the actual web page to be read. If none given, homepage is given).
URL
Simulation of the real thing.
Virtual
A knowledge base website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser.
Wikis
