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Mantis Bug Tracker is a free and open source, web-based bug tracking system.The most common use of MantisBT is to track software defects.However, MantisBT is often configured by users to serve as a more generic issue tracking system and project management tool.
Spam, ham, and eggs are the principal metasyntactic variables used in the Python programming language. [10] This is a reference to the famous comedy sketch, "Spam", by Monty Python, the eponym of the language. [11] In the following example spam, ham, and eggs are metasyntactic variables and lines beginning with # are comments.
Webhooks are "user-defined HTTP callbacks". [2] They are usually triggered by some event, such as pushing code to a repository, [3] a new comment or a purchase, [4] a comment being posted to a blog [5] and many more use cases. [6] When that event occurs, the source site makes an HTTP request to the URL configured for the webhook.
An example of an IDN homograph attack; the Latin letters "e" and "a" are replaced with the Cyrillic letters "е" and "а".The internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack (sometimes written as homoglyph attack) is a method used by malicious parties to deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look ...
A spambot is a computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam.Spambots usually create accounts and send spam messages with them. [1] Web hosts and website operators have responded by banning spammers, leading to an ongoing struggle between them and spammers in which spammers find new ways to evade the bans and anti-spam programs, and hosts counteract these methods.
The passive method of adding random words to a small spam was ineffective as a method of attack: only 0.04% of the modified spam messages were delivered. The active attack involved adding random words to a small spam and using a web bug to determine whether the spam was received. If it was, another Bayesian system was trained using the same ...
The spam that a user receives is often related to the online user's activities. For example, a user may have been subscribed to an online newsletter that the user considers to be spam. This online newsletter is likely to contain words that are common to all newsletters, such as the name of the newsletter and its originating email address.
Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks.Hashcash was proposed in 1997 by Adam Back [1] and described more formally in Back's 2002 paper "Hashcash – A Denial of Service Counter-Measure". [2]