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  2. Penetration test - Wikipedia

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    A penetration test, colloquially known as a pentest, is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to evaluate the security of the system; [1] this is not to be confused with a vulnerability assessment. [2] The test is performed to identify weaknesses (or vulnerabilities), including the potential for unauthorized ...

  3. Tor (network) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 September 2024. Free and open-source anonymity network based on onion routing This article is about the software and anonymity network. For the software's organization, see The Tor Project. For the magazine, see Tor.com. Tor The Tor Project logo Developer(s) The Tor Project Initial release September ...

  4. List of countries by number of Internet users - Wikipedia

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    Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users as of 2024. Internet users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones. [ Note 1 ] Percentage is the percentage of a country's population that are Internet users. Estimates are derived either from household ...

  5. List of Internet pioneers - Wikipedia

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    Robert Cailliau, 1995. Robert Cailliau (French: [kaˈjo], born 1947), is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, working with Tim Berners-Lee and Nicola Pellow at CERN, developed the World Wide Web. [229] In 2012 he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

  6. Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Tim Berners-Lee. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), [ 1 ] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford [ 2 ] and a professor emeritus at the ...

  7. Internet censorship - Wikipedia

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    e. Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.

  8. Global Internet usage - Wikipedia

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    Internet users. In 2015, the International Telecommunication Union estimated about 3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world's population, would be online by the end of the year. Of them, about 2 billion would be from developing countries, including 89 million from least developed countries. [ 1 ][ 2 ] According to Hootsuite, the number ...

  9. History of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...