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Jargon Buster

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Whether you are using a computer for work or surfing the internet, you are likely at some point to come across 'jargon'.

We have gathered a list of some of the more frequent words you might come across and explained them in easy to understand manner
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  • Adware
  • Anonymizing Proxy
  • Autorun Worm
  • Backdoor Trojan
  • Blended Threats
  • Boot Sector Malware
  • Botnet
  • Browser Hijacker
  • Brute Force Attack
  • Buffer Overflow
  • Chain Letters
  • Command And Control Center (C&C)
  • Cookies
  • Data Leakage
  • Data Loss
  • Data Theft
  • Denial-of-Service attack (Dos)
  • Document Malware
  • Drive-by Download
  • Email Malware
  • Exploit
  • Fake Anti-Virus Malware
  • Hoax
  • Honeypot
  • Internet Worm
  • In-the-cloud Detection
  • KeyLogger
  • Malware
  • Mobile Phone Malware
  • Parasitic Virus
  • Patch
  • Phishing
  • Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA)
  • Ransomware
  • Rootkit
  • Social Engineering
  • Social Networking
  • SPAM
  • Spear Phishing
  • Spoofing
  • Spyware
  • Suspicious Files & Behaviour
  • Trojan Horse (Trojan)
  • Virus
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Zombies