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Definition: Identity theft occurs when an attacker impersonates or pretends to be you. By acquiring key pieces of information such as your Social Security Number, birth date, home address, drivers license number or other sensitive, personal information, an attacker may
Definition: ICMP, or Internet Control Message Protocol, is part of the Internet Protocol (IP) portion of TCP/IP. Common network testing commands such as PING and TRACERT (Trace Route) rely on the ICMP protocol. Also Known As: Internet Control Message Protocol
Definition: HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the basic language used to create graphic web pages. HTML defines the syntax and tags used to create documents on the World Wide Web. In its basic form, HTML documents are static- meaning they
Definition: A honeypot is a computer system intended to attract or lure attackers to it. A honeypot serves to distract attackers from the real targets as a decoy as well as a means to track and monitor attacks to learn
Definition: A hoax is an attempt to trick a user into believing something that is not true. It is mainly associated with emails with claims that are too good to be true or ask you to do things like forward
Definition: A hijacker, also known as a browser hijacker or homepage hijacker, is a type of malware which resets your browser settings so that your homepage is changed and may redirect any or all of you web page requests to
Definition: Heuristics uses past experience to make educated guesses about the present. Using rules and decisions based on analysis of past network or email traffic, heuristic scanning in antivirus software can self-learn and use artifical intelligence to attempt to block
Definition: Commonly used to refer to any individual who uses their knowledge of networks and computer systems to gain unauthorized access to computer systems. While often used interchangeably, the term hacker typically applies to those who break in out of
Definition: Freeware is any program offered free of charge. Applications developed under the GPL, or open source, licensing agreements are also free, but freeware goes beyond just open source products to include products where the code itself might be protected,
Definition: Forensic is really a legal term. At its root it means something that is worthy of discussing in a court of law or that is related to the application of knowledge to a legal problem. It has been glorified
