Internet security

Internet security

Definitions for common terms and phrases related to security threats, vulnerabilities, and technology.

Contributors in Internet security

Internet security

On the World Wide Web, a link farm is any group of web sites that all hyperlink to every other site in the group. Although some link farms can be created by hand, most are created through automated ...

SSL Certificates

Internet; Internet security

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a security protocol created by Netscape which has been an international standard on the Internet for exchanging critical or private information between a website and the ...

Cookies

Internet; Internet security

Cookies are small text files placed on a computer's hard disc that many websites use to store information about pages visited and other settings, either temporary or persistent. For example, cookies ...

Tunnelling

Internet; Internet security

An evasion technique that allows a virus to avoid standard interfaces so it can infect files and go unnoticed by a behaviour blocker. tunnelling viruses try to intercept the actions before the ...

False alarm, false detection, false positive

Internet; Internet security

Improper malware detection of a clean file. For example, heuristic and generic detection methods can protect users from threats that have not yet been discovered. However, these detection ...

Script

Internet; Internet security

A type of programme containing instructions that a host application interprets and executes. Script instructions are usually expressed using the application's rules and syntax combined with simple ...

In the wild

Internet; Internet security

The state of a virus when two independent researchers identify it in circulation within a one-year period. Approximately 450 viruses exist in the wild at any given time.