- Industry: Software
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The program that automatically updates McAfee software with the latest detection definition (. DAT) files and scan engine. It upgrades all supported versions of McAfee VirusScan.
Industry:Internet
A company’s approach to all of its security issues. The security posture should include both technical and nontechnical elements (such as policies, procedures, and controls) that address internal and external threats.
Industry:Internet
Also know as mutating or self-encrypting virus, a virus that can change its byte pattern when it replicates, avoiding detection by simple string-scanning techniques. Some polymorphic viruses use different encryption schemes and require different decryption routines. Thus, the same virus may look completely different on each system or even within separate files. Other polymorphic viruses vary instruction sequences and use false commands in an attempt to thwart anti-virus software. One of the most advanced polymorphic viruses uses a mutation engine and random-number generators to change the virus code and its decryption routine.
Industry:Internet
A catchphrase for the latest generation of interactive web applications, including scripts, XML, and applets. These applications allow users to generate content, such as blogs, multimedia, and code.
Industry:Internet
An exploitable defect in a software application or operating system that allows hackers to crash systems, access information on systems, or use systems for their own purposes.
Industry:Internet
A legal contract between the producer of a piece of software and its user. The EULA may contain limitations on how the user can use or remove the product, or disclose functionality of the product that may not be readily apparent.
Industry:Internet
Bits per second is a measure of the speed of a connection, normally used for modems or when downloading files from the Internet.
Industry:Internet
A set of programs installed on a gateway server. The programs are designed to protect the network’s resources from users on other networks. A firewall filters and routes incoming traffic and makes outgoing requests to the Internet, for example, on behalf of local workstations. Firewall software analyzes information passing between networks and external systems, and rejects it if it does not conform to preconfigured rules.
Industry:Internet
An attempted system security breach that may be active (altering or destroying data) or passive (intercepting or reading data without changing it). Successful attacks range in severity from viewing of sensitive data to disabling computer systems.
Industry:Internet
Previously known as Greenwich Mean Time, UTC is an international, atomic time standard adopted as a means of civil timekeeping. UTC is based on International Atomic Time (TAI), but differs by the addition of leap seconds, which are added to make up for the slowing rotation of the earth.
Industry:Internet
