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  2. Security switch - Wikipedia

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    It then activates internet security function and disables internet access, interrupting the download. If laptop software is compromised by air-gap malware , the user may activate the security switch and disconnect the speaker and microphone, so it can not establish communication with the device.

  3. Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection

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    In the Ethernet protocol, when a communication collision happens (when two users of the medium try to send at the same time), each user waits for a random period of time before re-accessing the link. However, a user will wait ("back off") for a random amount of time proportional to the number of times it has successively tried to access the link.

  4. Flame (malware) - Wikipedia

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    Flame (a.k.a. Da Flame) was identified in May 2012 by the MAHER Center of the Iranian National CERT, Kaspersky Lab and CrySyS Lab (Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics when Kaspersky Lab was asked by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union to investigate reports of a virus affecting Iranian Oil Ministry ...

  5. Spyware - Wikipedia

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    According to the FTC, Cyberspy touted RemoteSpy as a "100% undetectable" way to "Spy on Anyone. From Anywhere." The FTC has obtained a temporary order prohibiting the defendants from selling the software and disconnecting from the Internet any of their servers that collect, store, or provide access to information that this software has gathered.

  6. Keyboard interrupt - Wikipedia

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    In computing, keyboard interrupt may refer to: A special case of signal (computing) , a condition (often implemented as an exception) usually generated by the keyboard in the text user interface A hardware interrupt generated when a key is pressed or released, see keyboard controller (computing)

  7. Wired Equivalent Privacy - Wikipedia

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    The access point can then be used to decrypt these packets and relay them on to a buddy on the Internet, allowing real-time decryption of WEP traffic within a minute of eavesdropping the first packet. In 2007, Erik Tews, Andrei Pyshkin, and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann were able to extend Klein's 2005 attack and optimize it for usage against WEP.

  8. Evil twin (wireless networks) - Wikipedia

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    The counterfeit access point may be given the same SSID and BSSID as a nearby Wi-Fi network. The evil twin can be configured to pass Internet traffic through to the legitimate access point while monitoring the victim's connection, [3] or it can simply say the system is temporarily unavailable after obtaining a username and password. [4] [5] [6] [7]

  9. Broadband - Wikipedia

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    Fixed broadband subscriptions (per 100 people) In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide-bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Internet access.