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LulzSec (a contraction for Lulz Security) was [1] a black hat computer hacking group that claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks, including the compromise of user accounts from PlayStation Network in 2011. The group also claimed responsibility for taking the CIA website offline. [2] Some security professionals have commented ...
Copy-and-paste programming. Copy-and-paste programming, sometimes referred to as just pasting, is the production of highly repetitive computer programming code, as produced by copy and paste operations. It is primarily a pejorative term; those who use the term are often implying a lack of programming competence and ability to create abstractions.
The term copypasta is derived from the computer interface term "copy and paste", the act of selecting a piece of text and copying it elsewhere. Usage of the word can be traced back to an anonymous 4chan thread from 2006, [2] [3] and Merriam-Webster record it appearing on Usenet and Urban Dictionary for the first time that year.
If you think your account has been compromised, follow the steps listed below to secure it. 1. Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated.
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) homoglyph attack (often written as homograph attack) is a way a malicious party may deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look alike (i.e ...
After years of investing in self-checkouts, Five Below, Dollar General and others are refocusing on human cashiers, citing long-running concerns about lost inventory.
Apple has made it possible to "copy, cut and paste" between your iPhone and other Apple devices using nothing but the tips of your fingers.
In a Carnegie Mellon report prepared for the U.K. Department of Defense in 2000, script kiddies are defined as. The more immature but unfortunately often just as dangerous exploiter of security lapses on the Internet. The typical script kiddy uses existing and frequently well known and easy-to-find techniques and programs or scripts to search ...