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phishing

Phishing is a type of computer and internet fraud that involves the creation of false digital resources intended to resemble those of legitimate business entities, such as a website or email, and the dissemination of seemingly legitimate digital correspondence that leads back to those false resources via email or URL to induce individuals to reveal or disclose sensitive, personally id

screen scraping

Screen scraping is a technique used to extract data from websites or other web applications.  Screen scraping software automates navigating a user interface, interacting with its content, and extracting data from the website’s HTML or other data displayed on the screen.  Screen scraping is technically legal; although the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act prohibits people from accessing a computer by circumventing the typical protective measures, (username/password) the Ninth Circuit ruled in

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a primary internet protocol that enables the transmission of data between different devices on the same network. TCP is designed to ensure the safe delivery of messages over internet networks. Additionally, TCP recovers lost messages and resolves corrupted internet files. TCP is defined by the standards of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the internet’s top standards development organization.

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