• a prepared application that takes advantage of a known weakness.

  • a tool used to quickly check computers on a network for known weaknesses.

  • an application that captures TCP/IP data packets, which can maliciously be used to capture passwords and other data while it is in transit either within the computer or over the network.

  • a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining illegitimate access


an application that captures TCP/IP data packets, which can maliciously be used to capture passwords and other data while it is in transit either within the computer or over the network.

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