Malware

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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An HTTP cookie, also called a tracking cookie, is a piece of text sent by an accessed server to the accessing browser. From then on, every time the browser accesses the server again, that particular ...

Cross-site scripting

Software; Malware

An attack technique wherein an attacker inserts malicious HTML and JavaScript into a vulnerable webpage, often in an effort to distribute malware or to steal sensitive information from the website or ...

Completely automated public turing test to tell computers and humans apart (CAPTCHA)

Software; Malware

A CAPTCHA is a challenge meant to be easily solvable by humans, while remaining too hard to be economically solved by computers. An example of CAPTCHA seen widely on websites is a distorted image of ...

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

Software; Malware

Also abbreviated as XSRF. A website exploit in which unauthorised commands from an attacker are executed by a website under the guide that the attacker is in fact a trusted user. It involves ...

Cryptor

Software; Malware

A tool that may be used, legitimately, or illegitimately, to protect an application from being reverse-engineered, or otherwise analyzed. These tools use encryption to obfuscate the content of an ...

Cybersquatting

Software; Malware

The act of registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. Also known as "typosquatting".