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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spammer

Software; Malware

A spammer is a trojan that sends large volumes of unsolicited email. It may also pertain to the person or entity responsible for sending out the unsolicited email messages.

spoof

Software; Malware

A type of attack where the source of a message (say, in an email message or on a webpage) is falsified to appear to come from a trusted third party. For example, malware authors often distribute ...

spoofer

Software; Malware

A spoofer is a trojan that attempts to create fake email headers and other protocols that can be spoofed.

spoofing

Software; Malware

A vulnerability in which a user is able to mimic another user or system; for websites, this term pertains to when a website copies the same look and feel of another in order to trick users into ...

spyware

Software; Malware

A program that collects information, such as browsing behavior, and uses it without adequate user consent.

A technique in which an attacker enters a specially crafted Structured Query Language (SQL) statement into an ordinary web form. If form input is not filtered and validated before being submitted to ...

stack-based buffer overflow

Software; Malware

The more common type of buffer overflow in which the overflow occurs when a program writes to memory addresses outside of the buffer, usually fixed in size. As a result, data adjacent to the stack is ...