http://www.viruslist.com/en/ 13 Mar 2010 22:41:21 +0300 http://www.viruslist.com/en/rss/klogo.gif http://www.viruslist.com/en/ Viruses, Hackers These are the most dangerous, and most widespread, type of Trojan. Backdoor Trojans provide the author or ‘master’ of the Trojan with remote ‘administration’ of victim machines. Unlike legitimate remote administration utilities, they install, launch and run invisibly,... http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=189208417 19 Jun 2006 14:51:00 +0300 Viruses, Hackers A keylogger can be used by a third-party to obtain confidential data (login details, passwords, credit card numbers, PINs, etc.) by intercepting key presses. Backdoor Trojans typically come with a built-in keylogger; and the confidential data is relayed to a remote hacker to be used to make money... http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=189276653 06 Dec 2006 19:04:00 +0300 Viruses, Hackers Malware (short for malicious software) refers to any program that is deliberately created to perform an unauthorized, often harmful, action. http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=189267896 20 Jun 2006 11:33:00 +0300 Viruses, Hackers ‘Riskware’ is the generic term used by Kaspersky Lab to describe programs that are legitimate in themselves, but that have the potential for misuse by cyber criminals: for example, remote administration utilities. Such programs have always had the potential to be misused, but they now... http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=189273809 20 Jun 2006 13:47:00 +0300 Viruses, Hackers, Spam War chalking refers to the act of walking round a city or town to locate wireless access points, or ‘hot spots’, in order to gain unauthorized access to unsecured wireless networks. It is so-called from the act of indicating the hot-spot using a chalk mark. http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=189276633 20 Jun 2006 14:53:00 +0300 Viruses, Hackers, Spam WiFi (short for ‘wireless fidelity’) is the name commonly given to wireless networks that conform to the 802.11 specification laid down by IEEE [Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers]. WiFi provides for fast data transfer rates (up to 11Mbs) and has become increasingly... http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=189276645 20 Jun 2006 14:57:00 +0300 Viruses The WildList was established in July 1993 by anti-virus researcher Joe Wells, was subsequently published monthly by the WildList Organization and is now published by ICSA Labs (part of TrueSecure Corporation). It aims to keep track of which viruses are spreading in the real world (the WildList FAQ... http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=189276647 20 Jun 2006 14:58:00 +0300 Hackers, Spam Used as one method of filtering spam, a whitelist provides a list of legitimate e-mail addresses or domain names: all messages from whitelisted addresses or domains are automatically passed through to the intended recipient. http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=189276643 20 Jun 2006 14:56:00 +0300 Viruses, Hackers A vulnerability is a bug or security flaw in an application or operating system that provides the potential for a hacker or virus writer to gain unauthorized access to, or use of, a user’s computer. The hacker does this by writing specific exploit code. Once a vulnerability has been... http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=189276631 20 Jun 2006 14:52:00 +0300 Viruses, Hackers, Spam The World Wide Web (or WWW for short) was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, a British software consultant who was looking for a way to track associations between pieces of information using a computer (much like a thesaurus does manually). His initial program for doing this was called ‘... http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=189276652 20 Jun 2006 14:59:00 +0300