Developed under a US Army contract, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was developed for the purpose of integrating ballistic equations and computing the naval shell trajectories.
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Firewall blocks traffic that is undesirable in some way. The intention is to prevent infection by malware and spyware without restricting the user from carrying out legitimate activity.
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Cookies are used by websites to store your activity on the website. They are then used to recognize you every time you visit the website.
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The name, Trojan Virus, is obviously derived from the wooden horse employed by Greek army during the Trojan War.
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Kernel acts as the bridge between applications and data processing performed at the hardware level, using inter-process communication and system calls.
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The first operating system was introduced in the early 1950s. It was called GMOS and was created by General Motors for IBM's machine, the 701.
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Flash Memory is an EEPROM (electronically erasable programmable read-only memory) form of computer memory that does not require a power source to retain the data.
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When the system security is bypassed, in order to isolate and identify potential cyber threats and data breaches, such a practice is known as Ethical Hacking.
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Control Data Corp.’s CDC 6600 is credited to be the world's first ever supercomputer. Designed in 1964 by Seymour Cray, the machine ran about 1 megaflop speed (a million floating point operations per second).
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Regular bits are either 0 or 1. But a qubit is 0 and 1 at the same time. A quantum computer processes qubits, which makes it exponentially faster than other computers.