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Malware
Abbreviation for Malicious software, it is a software designed to harm or secretly access a computer system without the owner's informed consent.
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Browser modifier
Software; Malware
A programme that makes browser modifications without adequate user consent.
Incorrect detection
Software; Malware
A type of detection in which a legitimate programme may have been mistakenly classified as malware or potentially unwanted software. If you would like to report an incorrect detection, you can use ...
Integer overflow
Software; Malware
Occurs when an integer value is incremented by an application until it becomes a value too large to fit in the current representation; this may be a problem when the integer value is used to ...
Improper input validation
Software; Malware
Occurs when an input to a form is not properly validated or sanitized, or is in a form that the application is not fit to handle correctly; this is a potential vulnerability if the improper ...
Information disclosure
Software; Malware
A vulnerability in which information is made available, often inadvertently, by an application, either to users to whom the information should not be made available, or in a situation in which the ...
In-the-wild
Software; Malware
Malware that is currently detected in active computers connected to the Internet, as compared to those confined to internal test networks, malware research laboratories, or malware sample lists.
Insufficient bounds
Software; Malware
A condition which may lead to a buffer overflow; this occurs when the boundaries for a container are too small for the data being written into it.
