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  2. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a person who commits illegal acts by exploiting security flaws in a computer system an unsophisticated, typically rural white person (also white cracker; derogatory slang, southeastern US) crèche day care, day nursery nativity scene, manger scene, crib (q.v.) * creek: tidal channel through a coastal marsh (orig. sense)

  3. Exploit - Wikipedia

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    Exploit means to take advantage of something (a person, situation, etc.) for one's own end, especially unethically or unjustifiably. Exploit can mean: Exploitation of natural resources; Exploit (computer security) Video game exploit; Exploitation of labour, Marxist and other sociological aspects

  4. Exploit (computer security) - Wikipedia

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    A remote exploit works over a network and exploits the security vulnerability without any prior access to the vulnerable system. A local exploit requires prior access or physical access to the vulnerable system, and usually increases the privileges of the person running the exploit past those granted by the system administrator. Exploits ...

  5. Exploitation - Wikipedia

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    Exploit (disambiguation) Overexploitation This page was last edited on 24 December 2024, at 18:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  6. Phreaking - Wikipedia

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    Phreaking began in the 1960s when it was discovered that certain whistles could replicate the 2600 Hz pitch used in phone signalling systems in the United States. [3] Phone phreaks experimented with dialing around the telephone network to understand how the phone system worked, engaging in activities such as listening to the pattern of tones to figure out how calls were routed, reading obscure ...

  7. Session hijacking - Wikipedia

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    Early versions of HTTP 1.0 did have some security weaknesses relating to session hijacking, but they were difficult to exploit due to the vagaries of most early HTTP 1.0 servers and browsers. As HTTP 1.0 has been designated as a fallback for HTTP 1.1 since the early 2000s—and as HTTP 1.0 servers are all essentially HTTP 1.1 servers the ...

  8. Threat actor - Wikipedia

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    Threat actors engage in cyber related offenses to exploit open vulnerabilities and disrupt operations. [2] Threat actors have different educational backgrounds, skills, and resources. [ 1 ] The frequency and classification of cyber attacks changes rapidly.

  9. Blaxploitation - Wikipedia

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    In US cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the Black civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panther Party, political and sociological circumstances that facilitated Black artists reclaiming their power of the Representation of the Black ...