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A SIM swap scam (also known as port-out scam, SIM splitting, [1] simjacking, and SIM swapping) [2] is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message (SMS) or call placed to a mobile telephone.
A port scan or portscan is a process that sends client requests to a range of server port addresses on a host, with the goal of finding an active port; this is not a nefarious process in and of itself. [1] The majority of uses of a port scan are not attacks, but rather simple probes to determine services available on a remote machine.
SIM Application Toolkit (STK) is a standard of the GSM system which enables the subscriber identity module (SIM card) to initiate actions which can be used for various value-added services. [1]
An idle scan is a TCP port scan method for determining what services are open on a target computer [1] without leaving traces pointing back at oneself. This is accomplished by using packet spoofing to impersonate another computer (called a " zombie ") so that the target believes it's being accessed by the zombie.
The company was first established in 2007 as 10gen. Based in New York City, 10gen was founded by former DoubleClick founder and CTO Dwight Merriman and former DoubleClick CEO and Gilt Groupe founder Kevin P. Ryan with former DoubleClick engineer and ShopWiki founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz and received $81 million in venture capital funding from Flybridge Capital Partners, In-Q-Tel, Intel ...
The introduction of the snapshot read concern in MongoDB 4.0 eliminated this risk. [70] MongoDB claimed that version 3.6.4 had passed "the industry's toughest data safety, correctness, and consistency tests" by Jepsen, and that "MongoDB offers among the strongest data consistency, correctness, and safety guarantees of any database available today."
Before partitioned containers were available, it was common to write custom code to partition data and some of the Cosmos DB SDKs explicitly supported several different partitioning schemes. That mode is still available but only recommended when storage and throughput requirements do not exceed the capacity of one container, or when the built ...
Realm is an open source object database management system, initially for mobile operating systems (Android/iOS) [1] but also available for platforms such as Xamarin, [2] React Native, [3] and others, [4] [5] including desktop applications (Windows [6]).