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A Glossary of a hacker’s dictionary

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Advanced persistent threat (APT): A strategic cyber attack that infiltrates a system and persists over a prolonged period of time, potentially undetected. APTs may be carried out by a nation state or criminal organization to steal sensitive data or compromise a target system.
Botnet: A large network of virus-infected computers that can be used to generate spam, spread viruses, perpetrate click fraud or conduct attacks on other systems.
Bug bounty program: A program where software companies offer cash rewards to hackers to find and report exploitable vulnerabilities before they can be used by cyber criminals. Facebook, Google, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft have been known to offer thousands of dollars in return for bugs.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack: An attack designed to disrupt a computer system or website service by bombarding the site with so much web traffic that it crashes. Botnets are often used to carry out DDoS assaults.
Ransomware: Malicious software designed to block access to a system or account until a sum of money is paid.
Social engineering: Non-computer methods of manipulation to obtain sensitive personal information, such as birth dates, or social security numbers. Personal knowledge often used to bypass passwords.
Special phishing: An email masquerading as being from a trusted source or person you know sent with the goal of obtaining sensitive information, often by downloading data-sniffing and computer-controlling malicious software.
Zero-day exploit: A previously undetected software vulnerability that is used to hack into affected system before developers or manufacturers can address or fix the problem.

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Facebook creates ‘Safety Check’ tool for disasters

A tool that push users notify friends and family that they are safe during or after natural disasters like Tsunami & Earthquake, is launched by Facebook.Webdesign CompanyToronto_DMGWeblabs

The tool, called ‘Safety Check’, which includes the basic “feature”  phones many people still use to access Facebook, will be available worldwide to the social network’s users on computers and mobile devices, especially in developing countries.

Though the people already use Facebook to tell people they are “OK” after earthquakes and other disasters, the Facebook’s Safety Check tool will make it easier. This tool was created in 2011 by Facebook engineers following the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan as a disaster message board.

Once users activate the tool, it will determine their location using the city they have listed in their profile, the last location they’ve shared or the city where they are using the internet. If they are in an area affected by a natural disaster, Safety Check will send them a notification asking if they’re safe.

If they say yes, their Facebook friends will be notified. There’s no option to say no. Users can also mark their friends as safe, but the friends have to approve it.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is a Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/44834579.cms?intenttarget=no”