| K | The "kilo" in Kilobit and Kilobyte, 2 to the power of 10 (2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2). A nice round figure in Binary, but translates to 1,024 in decimal. |
| Kb | Kilobit - Approximately 1 thousand Bits (actually 2 to the power of 10 bits = 1,024 bits). Kb is often misused instead of KB to mean Kilobyte. |
| KB | Kilobyte - Approximately 1 thousand Bytes (actually 2 to the power of 10 bytes = 1,024 bytes). |
| Kbs | Kilobits per second - A measurement of communication speed, typically used for slow Network connections such as Modems, e.g. 56Kbs is the norm for dial-up modems. |
| Keylogger | A keylogger is Spyware and is usually installed either by an E-mail Attachment you opened or by a (shall we say "not entirely honest") Web Site you visited. "You" means anyone who has used the computer you are using. If you have opened any unexpected attachment, or agreed to a program or ActiveX control running while on a Web site, or have changed the Default security settings of your Browser to be laxer for your convenience, it is possible that you have a keylogger on your machine. You could very well have a lot of other nasties on it as well, by the way. A keylogger, as its name suggests, logs your keystrokes: i.e. records everything you type. It also knows which Web Page or Application you were using, and sends all this information back to the perpetrator. He gets your credit card numbers, lLogin names and Passwords. Some keyloggers are commercially marketed as "employee surveillance systems". Don't do your online banking in an Internet Café. |
| Kilobyte | Approximately 1 thousand Bytes (actually = 2 to the power of 10 bytes = 1,024 bytes). The correct abbreviation is KB, not Kb. |