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Plan your viewing


TV Guide Never Miss Highlights Sky 1 Sky Living Sky Atlantic Sky Arts Sky Cinema Sky News Sky Sports Sky Box Sets Sky Store Sky Kids Watch Now Sky Go Our weekly guide to what’s on is full of exclusive [..]
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Back door


A loophole in a computer's security systems that allows a hacker access to it.
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Blog or web log


A blog is a type of web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal.
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Bandwidth


This is effectively how much stuff can you send through a connection. Usually measured in bits-per-second (bps).
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Browsers


Software programs that allow you to view www pages on the internet. E.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari
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CGI


Common Gateway Interface is the most common way web programs interact dynamically with users. Used extensively by search programs amongst others.
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Cookie


A message sent from a web server and stored by your browser on your computer. Used to allow the web page to 'remember' your details when you access it next time.
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Denial of service attacks


By overloading a network, hackers seek to make it unavailable to legitimate users. For example, by sending millions of spam emails simultaneously to a mail server, ordinary traffic will get clogged up [..]
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DNS


Domain Name System used to translate domain names into Internet Protocol numbers.
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DSL


Digital Subscriber Line – A method for moving data regularly over phone lines.
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