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  BBC NEWS | UK | Hi-tech crime: A glossary 

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5400052.stm

  Unwanted programs that, once installed, bombard users with unwanted adverts. Often those pushing the aware programs get paid for every machine they manage to recruit. Some adware poses as fake computer ... security software. Can be very hard to remove. A hacker that uses his or her skills for explicitly criminal or malicious ends. Has been used to mean the writers of destructive viruses or those that use attacks to knock websites offline. Now as likely to refer to those that steal credit card numbers and banking data with viruses or by phishing. The name given to an individual computer in a larger botnet and which is more than likely a home PC running Windows. The name is an abbreviation of "robot" to imply that it is under someone else's control. A large number of hijacked computers under the remote control of a single person via net-based command and control system. The machines are often recruited via a virus that travels via e-mail but increasingly drive-by downloads and worms are also   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  hi tech crime, web 2.0