Heartbleed Heartbleed is a security hole in OpenSSL that was discovered by the Finnish security firm Codenomicon and publicized on April 7, 2014. OpenSSL is the encryption technology used to create secure website connections over HTTPS, establish VPNs, and encrypt several other protocols. Since OpenSSL is used by roughly two-thirds of web servers, the vulnerability …
Hit A hit is a metric used in website analytics. While “hits” and “visits” are sometimes used interchangeably, they are two different things. A visit is recorded when a user visits a webpage. A hit is recorded for each resource that is downloaded from a web server. Therefore, it is common for hits to outnumber …
Home Page A home page is a webpage that serves as the starting point of website. It is the default webpage that loads when you visit a web address that only contains a domain name. For example, visiting https://techterms.com will display the Tech Terms home page. The home page is located in the root directory …
Honeypot A honeypot is a security system designed to detect and counteract unauthorized access or use of a computer system. The name “honeypot” is used in reference to the way the system traps unauthorized users, such as hackers or spammers so they can be identified and prevented from causing further problems. Honeypots are different than …
HTML5 HTML5 is the fifth major standard of HTML. Development of the standard began in 2007 and HTML5 websites started becoming mainstream in 2010. The final HTML5 standard was officially standardized by W3C on October 28, 2014. The previous HTML standard, HTML 4.01, was standardized in 1999 – fifteen years before the HTML5 standard was …
Hyperlink A hyperlink is a bit of text, an image, or a button in a hypertext document that you can click. A hyperlink may include a link to another document or to another part of the current page. Hyperlinks are found on virtually every webpage to help navigate readers to other pages and websites. Other …
Hypermedia Most Web navigation is done by clicking text-based links that open new pages in a Web browser. These links, which are often blue and underlined, are referred to as hypertext, since they allow the user to jump from page to page. Hypermedia is an extension of hypertext that allows images, movies, and Flash animations …
Hypertext Hypertext is a kind of specially-formatted text that provides a link to other content. Hypertext allows system designers to organize information in a branching structure instead of a linear one. Clicking a hypertext link (called a hyperlink) will send the user to another part of the current document or a separate document entirely. Hypertext …
iCloud iCloud is an online service provided by Apple. It provides an email account, online storage, and backup services. It also allows you to share data between devices, such as Macs, iPhones, and iPads. Below is a list of features included with iCloud: Mail – an email account that can be automatically configured on Apple …
ICQ ICQ is a popular online messaging program. It is similar to instant messaging programs like AIM and Yahoo! Messenger, but allows users to enter chat rooms and chat with multiple users at one time. Therefore, ICQ (which is short for “I seek you”) is more of a community-oriented chat program than other messaging programs. …