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Android (Mobile Device Platform)

Desire Athow — Mon, 13 Oct 2008

Android is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices, based on the Linux kernel, developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance

Access (Microsoft)

Desire Athow — Fri, 10 Oct 2008

Microsoft Office Access, previously known as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software development tools

Linux

Desire Athow — Fri, 03 Oct 2008

It is a Unix-like computer operating system family which uses the Linux kernel

Authentication

Desire Athow — Wed, 01 Oct 2008

It is the act of establishing or confirming something (or someone) as authentic, that is, that claims made by or about the thing are true.

Antivirus

Desire Athow — Wed, 01 Oct 2008

They are computer programs that attempt to identify, neutralize or eliminate malicious software

Pharming

Desire Athow — Tue, 23 Sep 2008

It is a hacker's attack aiming to redirect a website's traffic to another, bogus website

Computer data storage

Desire Athow — Tue, 16 Sep 2008

It is often called storage or memory, refers to computer components, devices, and recording media that retain digital data used for computing for some interval of time

Remote backup

Desire Athow — Tue, 15 Jul 2008

A remote, online, or managed backup service is a service that provides users with an online system for backing up and storing computer files

Recovery time objective

Desire Athow — Mon, 14 Jul 2008

The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity

Hardware Security Module (HSM)

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

It is a plug-in card (PCI) or external device (RS232/SCSI/IP/USB/PCMCIA) for a general purpose computer and may even be an embedded system itself

Disaster recovery

Desire Athow — Fri, 04 Jul 2008

Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business, including regaining access to data

Authentication server

Desire Athow — Thu, 26 Jun 2008

They are servers that provide authentication services to users or other systems. Users and other servers authenticate to such a server, and receive cryptographic tickets

XSRF

Desire Athow — Wed, 25 Jun 2008

Cross-site request forgery, also known as one click attack, sidejacking or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (Sea-Surf[1]) or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of websites

WS-Trust

Desire Athow — Tue, 24 Jun 2008

It is a WS-* specification and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security, specifically dealing with the issuing, renewing, and validating of security tokens, as well as with ways to establish, assess the presence of, and broker trust relationships between participants in a secure message exchange.

Windows Genuine Advantage

Desire Athow — Mon, 23 Jun 2008

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is an anti-piracy system created by Microsoft that enforces Microsoft Windows online validation of the authenticity of several recent Microsoft operating systems when accessing several Microsoft Windows services, such as Windows Update, and downloading Windows components from the Microsoft Download Center.

WikiScanner

Desire Athow — Fri, 20 Jun 2008

WikiScanner (also known as Wikipedia Scanner) is a tool created by Virgil Griffith and released on August 14, 2007, which consists of a publicly searchable database that links millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to the organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on the owners of the associated block of IP addresses

Semantic Web

Desire Athow — Thu, 19 Jun 2008

It is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.

Volume Testing

Desire Athow — Wed, 18 Jun 2008

It belongs to the group of non-functional tests, which are often misunderstood and/or used interchangeably

Computer security

Desire Athow — Tue, 17 Jun 2008

It is a branch of technology known as information security as applied to computers

OWASP

Desire Athow — Mon, 16 Jun 2008

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open-source application security project