name in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: Social engineering
Cheat Sheet Launched in 2001 the subject line and attachment name played upon individuals' naivety and most people's need to be loved. I'm thinking community projects - building irrigation systems perhaps? Then you couldn't be more wrong. [15 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Virus names and alerts
Cheat Sheet OK, well I know what computer viruses are so this should be straightforward - the name is just how they are distinguished from one another and the warning is an indication of how problematic things are at a given time? [08 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet: WiMax
Cheat Sheet If you take a quick look down the WiMax Forum's list of members, there's a good number of mobile firms and telcos in there - BT, Deutsche Telekom, Motorola and Siemens to name a few. Sounds like a buzzword. [12 Oct 2004]
Cheat Sheet: 3G - in all its flavours
Cheat Sheet For example the GSM camp, driven by the GSM Association, has been interested in rebranding 3G as 3GSM, as in the name of the annual trade show, only that naturally excludes the CDMA camp. Simple - doesn't it just mean faster mobile networks? [04 Aug 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Spyware
Cheat Sheet What we're talking about here are software applications that find their way onto users' machines for the purposes of, as the name suggests, spying on them. OK, I've seen the Bond films, I know what spyware is. [29 Jul 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Phishing
Cheat Sheet As the name suggests it require a little angling - a little invention on the part of the scammer. Over the years there have been instances of people submitting details to spoofed banks they don't even bank with - simply because it looked official... [25 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: VoIP
Cheat Sheet They work closely with your computer, so you could, for example, receive voicemail messages as email attachments or dial numbers by clicking on a name in your address book. VoIP? What's that stand for? [15 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Sarbanes-Oxley
Cheat Sheet It's the name of a piece of US compliance legislation, with global implications, which was signed off in 2002 and is soon to 'go live' with the intention of preventing financial malpractice and accounting scandals such as the Enron debacle. [10 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Biometrics
Cheat Sheet Think fingerprints, think iris scanning - as the name suggests, it relates to specific biological features which can be measured, recorded and then used as a form of identification. Biometrics? Go on, explain what it is then. [20 Apr 2004]
Cheat sheet: The mini iPod
Cheat Sheet The hype and the publicity which has surrounded the gadget has ensured Apple's is once again a name that is on the lips of consumers worldwide. It's the 'must have' item of 2004. Well that clears that up. [08 Apr 2004]
Cheat Sheet: The A-Z of 802.11
Cheat Sheet For a while, it was also known as Wi-Fi, but now 802.11g and 802.11a are also known by that name the branding is less useful. Wireless networking is part of the furniture these days but the zoo of standards still baffles the non-specialist. [04 Apr 2003]
Cheat Sheet: Itanium 2
Cheat Sheet You could always try AMD's forthcoming Hammer chips which will sell under the name of Opteron and Athlon. Intel's Itanium 2, known pre-launch as McKinley, is said to be a revolutionary product as it is the first 64-bit offering from the chip giant... [05 Jul 2002]
Cheat sheet: Difference between mm02 and 02
Cheat Sheet You don't need to care, really, but you may sound a bit stupid if you don't know that mm02 is the publicly traded holding company for the mm02 group of network operators.is the name of the UK and European networks and retail outlets, which is why... [24 Jun 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Bluetooth
Cheat Sheet Harald united Denmark and Norway by particularly bloody means and it is this ability to tie things together that compelled mobile phone company Ericsson to name the technology after him. The name doesn't give much away, does it? [12 Mar 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Spam
Cheat Sheet They can then get more money selling your name on to other spammers. Try using a creative email address - one that a name-generating program would be unlikely to come up with. It's unwanted email. The electronic form of the postal junk mail you... [03 Jan 2002]
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