Category: Glossary

1. UNIX process that does not terminate. Must be removed by the kill command. 2. A compromised web server that is used as an attack launch point to launch an overwhelming number of requests toward an attacked web site, which...

A specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on an IEEE 802 standard for personal area networks.

The immediate exchange of information across geographical, technical, and organizational boundaries so that all departments, customers, and related parties can work together in real time.

Exploitation by a hacker of a software vulnerability that is initially unknown to the manufacturer. Once the attack is discovered, the software developer works to close the vulnerability.

A standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium defining a language for transforming and formattingXML (eXtensible Markup Language) documents. An XSL stylesheet is written in XML and consists of instructions for tree...

General-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages. It is a simplified subset ofstandard generalized markup language, capable of describing many different kinds of data. Its primary purpose is to...

Focused on providing a standards-based specification for managing the sharing of documents that healthcareenterprises (anywhere from a private physician, to a clinic, to an acute care inpatient facility) have decided to...

1. Standard protocol for packet switched wide area network (WAN) communication developed by the International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication (ITU-T) Standard Sector. 2. Interface between Data Terminal Equipment (DTE)...

A security scheme for wireless networks, developed by the networking industry in response to the shortcomings of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) encryption and provides built-in...

The web, or World Wide Web, is basically a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to...

A communication system that transmits and receives data using wireless technology and implemented as an extension to or as an alternative for a hard-wired LAN.