Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Hang
a kind of computer crash that makes communication between the keyboard and computer impossible with the exception of utilizing the Ctrl-Alt-Del function. Doing so will offer the user the option to close the active application or reboot the computer. see Ctrl-Alt-Del, crash.
