Malware

Malware

Abbreviation for Malicious software, it is a software designed to harm or secretly access a computer system without the owner's informed consent.

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Malware

Software that appears to be beneficial from a security perspective but which provides limited or no security capabilities, generates a significant number of erroneous or misleading alerts, or which ...

rootkit

Software; Malware

A program whose main purpose is to perform certain functions that cannot be easily detected or undone by a system administrator, such as hide itself or other malware.

script

Software; Malware

A type of malware that is written using a scripting language. Common forms of scripting language include JavaScript, HTML, and Visual Basic.

search engine optimization (SEO)

Software; Malware

The process of increasing the visibility (and therefore popularity) of a webpage in search engine results. Usually, the higher a web page is in the list of results, the more likely that a user visits ...

security bypass

Software; Malware

A vulnerability in which a user is able to bypass security measures of an application.

sender ID framework

Software; Malware

An Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) protocol developed to authenticate email to detect spoofing and forged email with the typical tactic to drive users to phishing websites and to download ...