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Black Hat Briefings brings::together a unique mix in security: the best minds from government agencies and global corporations with the most respected independent researchers and hackers. These forums take place regularly in Las Vegas, Amsterdam, Tokyo & Washington D.C.. |
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Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD):This is where your screen goes blue, and you get an error message. In Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 there is nothing you can do but restart either in NORMAL or SAFE mode. |
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Bluejacking:Bluejacking is the practice of sending anonymous text messages to mobile users using Bluetooth |
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BlueSpamming:Is defined as unsolicited commercial electronic solicitations sent over a Bluetooth connection. Want to stop it? Turn off your bluetooth. |
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Bluetooth:Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs) |
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Bombing:where dozens of empty comments can be posted in the group's discussion area using an automated tool. The boxes push down the real comments and create hundreds of empty comment pages, effectively ruining a conversation. |
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Booster cheques:A booster cheque is a fraudulent or bad cheque used to make a payment to a credit card account in order to "bust out" or raise the amount of available credit on otherwise-legitimate credit cards. |
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Boot scan:This allows the antivirus engine to scan all of the files on your hard drive before any other programs load - useful in cases where you have an infection which cannot be cleaned because the "file is in use". |
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Botnet:is a term formed from two words – Robot and Network. A Bot, sometimes referred to as Zombie, is a computer that has been infected with malware that allows a remote malicious user access to the computer.
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Bots:Bots, spiders, web bots, robots and crawlers are all software applications or script. Bots are more commonly used for indexing search engines. They are programmed to visit sites on the Internet for use on search engine results pages i.e. Google. |
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Browser Helper Object (BHO):A Browser Helper Object, or BHO, is just a small program that runs automatically every time you start your Internet browser. |
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Browser Hijackers (see Browser Modifier):Browser hijackers are malicious programs that change browser settings, usually altering designated default start and search pages |
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