Terms & Definitions

• Ad-Ware
• Adware
• Anti-spy software
• anti-virus software
• Authentication
• Authorization
• BackDoor Santa
• BHO (Browser Helper Object)
• Blended Threat
• Blog
• BotMaster
• BotNet
• Broadcast Storm
• Cache
• Chat Bot
• Chat Rooms
• Computer Port
• Cookie
• CoolWebSearch
• Credit Monitoring
• Cryptography
• Dialers or 900 dialer or dialerz
• Disposable email address
• DosNet
• Drive-by downloads
• Drone
• Email Obfuscator
• Encapsulation
• Encryption
• EULA (End User License Agreement)
• Extensible Markup Language
• Firewall
• Fork Bomb
• Fraggle Attack
• Greynet
• Hoax
• Honeypot
• How to: Safely set your Active X Controls
• How to: Create a folder or directory in Windows
• How to: Show all Hidden Files in Windows Operating Systems
• Identity Theft
• Internet Tracks
• Jabber
• Joe Job
• LAND
• LDAP
• Logic Bomb
• Loyaltyware
• Malware
• MySpace
• NBName
• Non-Personally Identifiable Information (Non-PII)
• Onion Routing
• Online Preference Marketing (OPM)
• Opt-out
• Owned
• Page HiJackers
• ParasiteWare
• Password management
• Passwords
• Payload
• Personal information
• Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
• PGP
• Pharming
• Ping Flood
• Ping of Death
• Pinging Down
• Polymorphic Virus
• Privacy policy
• Probe
• Proxy
• Registry
• Retrospy
• Root Kit
• Rootkit
• Script Bunny
• Script Kiddie
• Secure Sockets Layer
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• SIMPLE
• SIP
• Skylook
• Skype
• Skype SMS
• SkypeIn
• Slimeware
• Smurf Amplifier
• Smurf Amplifier Registry
• Smurf Attack
• SnoopWare
• SPAM (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)
• Spambot
• SPIM
• Spyware
• SSL
• Stacheldraht
• Steganography
• Sugarcane
• SYN Flood
• TAN Number
• Tarpit
• TCP
• Teardrop
• The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
• Trickler
• Trojan or Trojan Horse
• Tunneling
• UDP
• UDP Flood
• VaporWare
• Virtual Private Network
• Voice over Internet Protocol
• VoIP
• VPN
• Wabbit
• Webmaster
• WinNuke
• Worm
• XDCC
• XML
• XMPP
• Zombie
• Zombie Master