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Dark-side Hacker:A criminal or malicious hacker. |
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Data Breaches (US only):Victims of data and security breaches are often offered a year of free credit monitoring as “compensation” for the breach. |
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Data Driven Attack:A form of attack that is encoded in innocuous seeming data which is executed by a user or a process to implement an attack. A data driven attack is a concern for firewalls, since it may get through the firewall in data form and launch an attack against a |
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Data Miner:A Data Miner is a program that can collect information on how you browse and use websites. The collected information can include data gathered from forms you fill and submit. Usually data miners work without your knowledge. |
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Data Protection Law - China:China has no data protection law at time of writing (August 2008). |
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Database (SQL) attack:normally result in credit card numbers being compromised and are effective in capturing large amounts of financial and identity data. |
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Day of the Jackal Fraud:A dead child is impersonated years later when they would have become an adult to create a false identity which can be used to facilitate identity fraud. |
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DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service):a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one in which a multitude of compromised systems attack a single target, thereby causing denial of service for users of the targeted system. |
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Decree:The general term for 'Decree' means "legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)" |
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Demon Dialer:A program which repeatedly calls the same telephone number. This is benign and legitimate for access to a BBS or malicious when used as a denial of service attack. |
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