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Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
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Cyber Storm
15 Feb 2006
WORD - Cyber Storm is the name of a simulated attack exercise conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) between February 6-10, 2006 to evaluate the performance of various public and private organizations. The ...
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honeynet
17 Aug 2004
WORD - A honeynet is a network set up with intentional vulnerabilities; its purpose is to invite attack, so that an attacker's activities and methods can be studied and that information used to increase network security. A honeynet ...
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ethical hacker
28 Sep 2003
WORD - An ethical hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. To test a security system, ethical hackers use the same ...
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ethical worm
23 Dec 2003
WORD - An ethical worm is a program that automates network-based distribution of security patches for known vulnerabilities. Like its malicious counterpart, the ethical worm could propagate across networks exponentially and perform ...
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gray hat
01 Jun 2001
WORD - Gray hat describes a cracker (or, if you prefer, hacker) who exploits a security weakness in a computer system or product in order to bring the weakness to the attention of the owners. Unlike a black hat, a gray hat acts ...
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honey pot
24 Feb 2004
WORD - A honey pot is a computer system on the Internet that is expressly set up to attract and "trap" people who attempt to penetrate other people's computer systems. (This includes the hacker, cracker, and script kiddy.) To set ...
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white hat
17 May 2001
WORD - White hat describes a hacker (or, if you prefer, cracker) who identifies a security weakness in a computer system or network but, instead of taking malicious advantage of it, exposes the weakness in a way that will allow the ...
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war dialer
01 Apr 2002
WORD - A war dialer is a computer program used to identify the phone numbers that can successfully make a connection with a computer modem. The program automatically dials a defined range of phone numbers and logs and enters in a ...
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