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Identity Theft and Data Security Breaches
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extrusion prevention
04 Mar 2008
WORD - Extrusion prevention is the practice of stopping data leakage by filtering outbound network traffic. The practice protects sensitive digital assets from unauthorized transfer by stopping the movement of packets across the ...
Rock Phish
25 Jul 2007
WORD - Rock Phish is both a phishing toolkit and the entity that publishes the toolkit. Phishing is an email fraud method in which the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking email in an attempt to gather personal and financial ...
parameter tampering
28 Jun 2006
WORD - Parameter tampering is a form of Web-based hacking event (called an attack) in which certain parameters in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Web page form field data entered by a user are changed without that user's ...
bot worm
21 Feb 2007
WORD - A bot worm is a self-replicating malware program that resides in current memory (RAM), turns infected computers into zombies (or bots) and transmits itself to other computers. A bot worm may be created with the ultimate ...
drive-by pharming
22 Feb 2007
WORD - Drive-by pharming is a vulnerability exploit in which the attacker takes advantage of an inadequately protected broadband router to gain access to user data. Symantec developed the technique, in conjunction with Indiana ...
cookie poisoning
05 Nov 2002
WORD - On the Web, cookie poisoning is the modification of a cookie (personal information in a Web user's computer) by an attacker to gain unauthorized information about the user for purposes such as identity theft. The attacker may ...
identity theft
08 Sep 2002
WORD - Identity theft is a crime in which an imposter obtains key pieces of personal
information, such as Social Security or driver's license numbers, in order to impersonate someone else. The information can be used
to obtain ...
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