Category: Yorùbá

English (en) Spreadsheet A spreadsheet or worksheet is a file made of rows and columns that help sort, organize, and arrange data efficiently, and calculate numerical data. What makes a spreadsheet program unique is its ability to calculate values using mathematical formulas and the data in cells. An example of how a spreadsheet may be...

English (en) Spoofing Duplicates of same person. In general, the term spoof refers to hacking or deception that imitates another person, program, hardware device, or computer to bypass security measures. Spoofing is the act of disguising a communication from an unknown source as being from a known, trusted source. Spoofing can apply to emails, phone...

English (en) Speed In general, speed is the overall time something takes to complete. For example, if a computer is fast, it opens a program in less than a few seconds. Fast computers can open smaller programs in less than a second. However, if a computer is slow, it can take several seconds or maybe...

English (en) Speech Recognition Speech recognition, also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition or speech-to-text, is a capability that enables a program to process human speech into a written format. Speech recognition, or speech-to- text, is the ability of a machine or program to identify words spoken aloud and convert them into...

English (en) Spear phishing Spear-phishing is a type of phishing attack that targets specific individuals or organizations typically through malicious emails. The goal of spear phishing is to steal sensitive information such as login credentials or infect the targets' device with malware. Spear phishing means using targeted emails to a specific person from an attacker...

English (en) Spammer Spam messages often come in the form of harmless (though annoying) promotional emails. But sometimes spam is a fraudulent or malicious scam. While the definition of spam is any unsolicited message sent in bulk, spamming is the act of sending these messages. And the person who sends the messages is a spammer.

English (en) Space bar Also called space key, space bar is the wide key at the bottom of a computer keyboard or typewriter that is used to make a space. The keyboard key that inserts a blank space into a document. When the spacebar key is pressed, it creates an empty space known as a...

English (en) Social Network Social network, in computers, an online community of individuals who exchange messages, share information, and, in some cases, cooperate on joint activities. Social networks are websites and apps that allow users and organizations to connect, communicate, share information and form relationships. Other languages: Hausa, Igbo Related terms Social Media Yorùbá (yo)...

English (en) Social Media Essentially, social media is a platform for broadcasting information, whereas social networking is a platform for communicating with one another. Social media are forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as...

English (en) Smishing Smishing is a social engineering attack that uses fake mobile text messages to trick people into downloading malware, sharing sensitive information or sending money to cybercriminals. The term “smishing” is a combination of “SMS”—or “short message service,” the technology behind text messages —and “phishing.” Other languages: Hausa, Igbo Related terms Hack, Malware