TÉRMINOS DE SEGURIDAD INFORMÁTICA

QUE ES ACCOUNT HARVESTION?

The process of collecting all the legitimate account names on a system can be done passively or actively. A tool that can be used for collecting mail accounts of a given domain is “The harvester”.

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QUE ES BLUESNARFING?

Bluesnarfing is the theft of information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection. Bluetooth is a high-speed but very short-range wireless technology for exchanging data between desktop and mobile computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other devices.

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QUE ES BOTNET?

A botnet is a number of Internet-connected devices, each of which is running one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack), steal data, send spam, and allow the attacker access to the device and its connection. The owner can control the botnet using command and control (C&C) software. The word “botnet” is a combination of the words “robot” and “network”. The term is usually used with a negative or malicious connotation.

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QUE ES CLICKJACKING?

The malicious practice of manipulating a website user’s activity by concealing hyperlinks beneath legitimate clickable content, thereby causing the user to perform actions of which they are unaware.

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QUE ES DENIAL OF SERVICE?

An interruption in an authorized user’s access to a computer network, typically one caused with malicious intent.

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QUE ES JOE JOB?

A menial or monotonous task.

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QUE ES PHARMING?

Pharming is a scamming practice in which malicious code is installed on a personal computer or server, misdirecting users to fraudulent Web sites without their knowledge or consent. Pharming has been called “phishing without a lure.

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QUE ES PHISHING?

Phishing is a form of fraud in which an attacker masquerades as a reputable entity or person in email or other communication channels.

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QUE ES PIGGY BACKING?

In two-way communication, whenever a data frame is received, the receiver waits and does not send the control frame (acknowledgement or ACK) back to the sender immediately. The receiver waits until its network layer passes in the next data packet. The delayed acknowledgement is then attached to this outgoing data frame.

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QUE ES SALAMI ATTACK?

salami attack is when small attacks add up to one major attack that can go undetected due to the nature of this type of cyber crime. It also known as salamislicing.

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QUE ES SPAM?

Irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc.

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QUE ES UN SPAMBOT?

A spambot is a program designed to collect, or harvest, e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam. A spambot can gather e-mail addresses from Web sites, newsgroups, special-interest group (SIG) postings, and chat-room conversations.

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QUE ES SPIM?

Also spelled as spIM, spam over instant messaging (IM). … Also referred to as instant spam or the less-intrusive sounding IM marketing. (v.) To send someone spam through an instant messaging application.

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QUE ES SPOOF/SPOOFING?  

 A technique used to gain unauthorized access to computers, whereby the intruder sends messages to a computer with an IP address indicating that the message is coming from a trusted host.

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