Spear phishing refers to the practice of targeting a specific individual, group, or organization with a tailored fraudulent email for the purpose of gaining access to sensitive personal or professional information. Spear phishing is unique from phishing due to the highly personalized nature of the targeting entailed.
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.
A Uniform Resource Locator, or URL is the address of a specific location on the web. As explained by the Computer Security Resource Center, a URL is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
The World Wide Web (WWW), often known as WWW, W3, or the Web, is the most widely used software platform on the globe. Tim Berners-Lee proposed the architecture of what became the World Wide Web. It is an information-based environment where users may access documents and other resources through the Internet using a web browser, allowing users to search for information by going from one page to the next.
