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C
Certificate:
Digital document issued by an independent organization that guarantees the
identity of the systems and people in the Internet. The security of the
certificate is protected by cryptographic techniques.
Content Filtering:
Set of technologies that allow to control the information transmitted by
Internet services. The Content Filtering is used to block e-mail-sent
viruses, and also to control children access to Internet, etc.
Cookie:
Information sent by an Internet server to the browser. It is given
back later in each new connection. They can be used with legitimate
intentions, like the user identification, but
also for malicious aims, such as the unproper
storage of browser navigation paths.
Chained E-mails
They are e-mail messages where the user is asked to resend it to
other people, and this people will resend them as well. They are
the possible sources of many problems related to e-mails, since they
sometimes contain false news, or hoaxes than
can carry viruses.
Cryptography:
Discipline that takes care of the security of the storage an information
transmission.
D
Denied Service
Informatic warning that disables a person to
continue browsing a Web Page, without affecting the information contained in
a system. This refusal can appear as an effect of the net saturation
or the access blocking for the computer.
E
Encoding:
Codification of data by diverse mathematical techniques that
guarantee their confidentiality in the transmission.
Electronic Signature:
Digital Information associated to a specifical operation performed in
the Internet, that along with certificates, allows to guarantee the
identity of the participants in a transaction.
F
Firewall:
System that controls computers and services that can be
accessed inside a network. It can be a specialized system or an installed
program (personal firewall). When this control is performed in the transmited information and not simply on
the connection the used system is a Proxy.
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Intrusion:
Computer interference in which the attacker is able to obtain a complete
control on the machine. During an intrusion the attacker can obtain and
modify all the data inside the machine, alter its operation
and even attack new computers.
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Malicious code:
Any program with an annoying, malevolent or illegal intention. They are
designed generally to execute itselves without the
intervention of the user.
P
Pharming:
"Pharming" is the term used
when speaking of a criminal practice in Internet in which the traffic of a
Web site is detoured towards another one of similar appearance, in order to
deceive the users to obtain names and access passwords; that will be
registered in the data base of the false site.
Password:
Set of letters, numbers symbols, and/or even phrases, used to
authenticate users in a computer system. In order for the passwords to
be effective it is necessary for them to be difficult for
an attacker to guess.
Personal Firewall:
A program installed in a computer that controls exclusively the
access to it. It is usually used in domestic computers with a direct
connection to Internet.
Phishing:
Attacks that use false e-mail messages and fraudulent servers with the
intention to deceive the users of Internet services. In the case of the
financial organizations, the objective is to make the users disclose
their data, like credit card numbers, password, or their PIN
access numbers.
Proxy:
Informatic system that serves
as an intermediary between a system and another one through
Internet, in order to accelerate the access to Internet and to filter
the contents that has been accessed, as well to protect the
systems avoiding the direct communication between them.
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Social Engineering:
Techniques that try to attack the security of the computer systems deceiving
their users and administrators. The majority of the techniques of social
engineering are similar to frauds.
Spyware:
Malicious or deceptive applications that are installed along with other
programs downloaded by the user. This type of programs can execute
different actions: some are dedicated to compile information of the system in
which they are installed to send it through Internet; others are dedicated to
continuosly show advertising
messages, or to modify the visualized pages including
non-existing connections to the original one. All these actions
are hidden behind false authorizations. For this reason the
user is rarely aware of it.
Spam:
Unwanted commercial e-mails sent over the Internet. The content
volume of the Spam can difficult notably the use of e-mail services.
T
Tap Napping
Type of phishing attack that take advantage of the multiple tabs that you
open in your browser. The tap napping process take advantage of the fact that
Internet users are convinced that pages open in tabs remains unchanged when
accessing other Internet services.
Trojan:
Malicious code hidden inside another useful and apparently inoffensive
program. The trojans can be included with
known programs, so it is necessary to be aware of the source from where
the software is obtained.
V
Virus:
Is the best known malicious code. Is a program that copies
itself inside other programs and tries to reproduce the maximum number
of times. Although not always is this way, the
majority of the time, the virus, alters or destroys the information of
the systems in which it is executed.
W
Worm:
Kind of malicious code that has as main characteristic to copy itself from
system to system all over the Internetés de
internet.
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