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WAIS

Wide Area Information Service—an Internet service that allows you to search a large number of specially indexed databases.

WAN

Wide-area network—a physical or logical network that provides capabilities for a number of independent devices to communicate with each other over a common transmission-interconnected topology in geographic areas larger than those served by local area nerworks.

War Dialer

A program that dials a given list or range of numbers and records those which answer with handshake tones, which might be entry points to computer or telecommunications systems.

Worm

Independent program that replicates from machine to machine across network connections often clogging networks and information systems as it spreads.

The author would like to thank Greg Stocksdale of the National Security Agency Information Systems Security Organization for contributing this glossary.




Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection
Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection
ISBN: 0750676132
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 232
Authors: Jesus Mena

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