Computer Emergency Response Team. http://www.cert.org/. A center of Internet security expertise, located at the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University.
CGI
Common Gateway Interface. A technology that enables a client web browser to request data from a program executed on a Web server.
ColdFusion
A tag-based, middleware programming language used mainly for writing web applications.
Common Gateway Interface
See CGI.
Computer Emergency Response Team
See CERT.
cookie guessing
Taking a legitimate cookie created by visiting a website and modifying its contents in an attempt to use the identity of someone else.
cracker
Someone who breaks into a secure system. Differentiated from a hacker whose purpose is to gain knowledge about computer systems.
