Mr Cook's List: ICT Terms, vocabulary explained - web sites

• Identity theft is a form of fraud in which someone pretends to be someone else in order to steal money or obtain other benefits.
• Identity theft generally used to refer to a specific type of identity fraud, specifically impersonation.

• system is used by GSM mobile phones, the most common mobile phone system in the world, for transmitting IP packets

• • Requests are sometimes sent by email (spam) asking for users to re-enter usernames and more importantly passwords so that these details can be 'stolen' and used to access accounts illegally
• phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
• Recent phishing attempts
• Helping to identify legitimate websites

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• Wi-Fi (pronounced /ˈwaɪfaɪ/) is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance that manufacturers may use to brand certified products that belong to a class of wireless local area network (WLAN) devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards. Because of the close relationship with its underlying standard, the term Wi-Fi is often used as a synonym for IEEE 802.11 technology.^[1][2]