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  2. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [6] [7] [8] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [9] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

  3. Phishing - Wikipedia

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    Fake link. 7. Incorrect name. Phishing is a form of social engineering and a scam where attackers deceive people into revealing sensitive information [1] or installing malware such as viruses, worms, adware, or ransomware. Phishing attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and often transparently mirror the site being targeted, allowing ...

  4. Error detection and correction - Wikipedia

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    The on-line textbook: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, by David J.C. MacKay, contains chapters on elementary error-correcting codes; on the theoretical limits of error-correction; and on the latest state-of-the-art error-correcting codes, including low-density parity-check codes, turbo codes, and fountain codes.

  5. Introduction to viruses - Wikipedia

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    A virus is a tiny infectious agent that reproduces inside the cells of living hosts. When infected, the host cell is forced to rapidly produce thousands of identical copies of the original virus. Unlike most living things, viruses do not have cells that divide; new viruses assemble in the infected host cell. But unlike simpler infectious agents ...

  6. Error catastrophe - Wikipedia

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    Consider a virus which has a genetic identity modeled by a string of ones and zeros (e.g. 11010001011101....). Suppose that the string has fixed length L and that during replication the virus copies each digit one by one, making a mistake with probability q independently of all other digits.

  7. Malware - Wikipedia

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    The first IBM PC virus in the wild was a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi brothers in Pakistan. [14] Malware distributors would trick the user into booting or running from an infected device or medium. For example, a virus could make an infected computer add autorunnable code to any USB stick plugged into it.

  8. Barcode - Wikipedia

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    Defunct as of 2019, replaced by standard QR codes. Micro QR code: Micro QR code is a smaller version of the QR code standard for applications where symbol size is limited. Micro PDF417: MicroPDF417 is a restricted size barcode, similar to PDF417, which is used to add additional data to linear barcodes. MMCC

  9. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 September 2024. Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread Hex dump of the Brain virus, generally regarded as the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself ...