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Definitions for common terms and phrases related to security threats, vulnerabilities, and technology.
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Link farm
Internet; 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.
