Security technology terms

Software app that runs automated tasks over the Internet. Can be used for automated and coordinated attack on network computers (one example idose nail of service DOS attach

mars herder is a crackewho a uses automatEd techniques to scan specific network ranges and find vulnerable systems on which toinstall their bots. Theinfected machine then becomes one ofMann zombies in a bot net that responds to commands given by the bot herder usually by intent relay chat command

an attempt to make a computer ornetwork resource unavailable yo it's intended users. Typically this is done bytemporarily or indefinitely interrusector suspend services of a host computer on the network

A piece of software, a chunk of data or sequence of commands that take advantage of a bug or glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended behavior to occur on computer software. This typically includes gainingcontrol of a computer system or allowing privelageescalation or DOS

someone who accesses a computer system by circumventing it's security system

A trap to fight unauthorized computer access

So software used to disrupt computer operation or gaina unauthorized access to computer systems can also be a script or a code

sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legit source in an attempt to cam the useinfo to surrending spi

packet analyzer computer software or hardware that can intercept and log traffic passing over a digital network

Use of electronic mestaging to send unsolicited bulk messages indisremently

a way of generating signitraffic computer network traffic. A type of dos atackthatfloods a system via spoofed broadcast ping messages

A technique to attack databases through a website. Done by including portions of SQL statementsIna a web forM entry field in an attempt to get the website to pass a newly formed rogue SQL command to the database

a program with benign capabilities that conceal another malicious program

a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers

a computer threat TNT tries to exploit computer application vulnerabilities that are unknown to others or software developers