Security definitions (A)
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| 5 | 5 | - The term adware is short for "advertising-supported software." It refers to any piece of software or application that displays advertisements, usually through pop-up or pop-under windows. |
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| 7 | 7 | - Different vendors often have their own approaches towards malware detection, which may result in different naming conventions. Aliases are other names used to refer to the same threat. |
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| 9 | 9 | - App stores are sites where users browse, download, and buy computing programs or "apps", mostly for mobile devices. |
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| 11 | - Application control is a security technology that recognizes only safelisted or "good files" and blocks blocklisted or "bad files" passing through any endpoint in an enterprise network. | |
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| 11 | 13 | - Applications are software programs developed for end-users to accomplish specific computing tasks. Apps, on the other hand, mostly refer to programs developed for mobile devices. |
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| 13 | 15 | - Advanced persistent threats (APTs) refer to a category of threats that pertain to computer intrusions by threat actors that aggressively pursue and compromise chosen targets. APTs are often conducted in campaigns-a series of failed and successful at |
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| 15 | 17 | - Advanced persistent threat \[APT\] is a military term adapted into the information security context that refers to attacks carried out by nation-states. APT-related threats are created by a group of developers using in-house tools that are not usually |
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