DiFlora Amanda: December 2011

Phishing is the activity of defrauding an online account holder of financial information by posing as a legitimate company.
Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail spoofing or instant messaging, and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one.
An Example: A phisher might pose as an AOL staff member and send an instant message to a potential victim, asking him to reveal his password

is a technology that uses radio waves to transfer data from an electronic tag, called RFID tag or label, attached to an object, through a reader for the purpose of identifying and tracking the object.
RFID in Social Media first came to light in 2010 with Facebook's annual conference.
RFID is a superior and more efficient way of identifying objects than manual system or use of bar code systems that have been in use since the 1970s
In 2011, the cost of tags started at US$0.05 each and special tags, meant to be mounted on metal or withstand gamma sterilization, can go up to US$5. Active tags for tracking containers, medical assets, or monitoring environmental conditions in data centers all start at US$50 and can go up over US$100 each.

Most commentary on the Internet is essentially done anonymously, using unidentifiable pseudonyms.
Full anonymity on the Internet, however, is not guaranteed

A CAPTCHA is a program that can generate and grade tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.
It is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person.

The term CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University

Parental control software can keep your kids safe online and limit their web surfing time, among other things.
Controls are now being applied to content ranging from explicit songs to objectionable movies available for purchase online

Cloud computing: the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network (typically the Internet).
Cloud computing dates back to the 1960s, when John McCarthy opined that "computation may someday be organised as a public utility."
The term "cloud" is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the cloud drawing used in the past to represent the telephone network

Internet Monitoring Software is a tool which users can track and monitor all activity on a computer using a local or remote network.
This becomes quite helpful to parents with young children because it allows them to not lose track of what their children are viewing while surfing the web.
Aside from monitoring children, this becomes useful to see whether an employee is spending work time to socialize, visit sites unrelated to his or her work.

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