by Tori Munyard | Aug 15, 2023
Font A set of printable or displayable text characters in a specific style – the text you are reading right now is a font, how it’s displayed on the... by Tori Munyard | Aug 15, 2023
Hamburger Menu This is a navigation tool used on websites and apps that, when clicked or tapped, opens a side menu. It’s called hamburger because the horizontal lines look like a universal symbol for a... by Tori Munyard | Aug 15, 2023
Honeypot A security mechanism to detect, deflect or in some manner, counteract attempts at unauthorised use of information. A simple example is a website form in which a field is hidden from the human viewer. A bot would not realise the field was hidden and would... by Tori Munyard | Aug 15, 2023
HTTPS It stands for ‘Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure’ which is used for secure communication over a network. It works together with an SSL (see further on). It essentially scrambles communications between viewer and provider of online information so that it can’t... by Tori Munyard | Aug 15, 2023
IP Address The internet is a giant network of computers connected to each other through a global network of cables. Each computer on this network can communicate with other computers. To identify each of them, they are labelled with a series of numbers, which looks...