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28 relations: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Systems, Brian Krebs, Client (computing), Digital rights management, Digital video recorder, Email client, Encryption, Firewall (computing), Hosts (file), HTML email, Internet, Internet of things, IP address, LoJack for Laptops, Mainframe computer, Malware, Nuclear facilities in Iran, PDF, Product activation, Server (computing), Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal, Spyware, Stuxnet, The New York Times, URL, Web beacon, Web server.
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).
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Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated, commonly known as Adobe, is an American multinational computer software company.
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Brian Krebs
Brian Krebs (born 1972 in Alabama) is an American journalist and investigative reporter.
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Client (computing)
A client is a piece of computer hardware or software that accesses a service made available by a server.
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Digital rights management
Digital rights management (DRM) is a set of access control technologies for restricting the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works.
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Digital video recorder
A digital video recorder (DVR) is an electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device.
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Email client
In Internet, an email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program in the category of groupware environments used to access and manage a user's email.
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Encryption
In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding a message or information in such a way that only authorized parties can access it and those who are not authorized cannot.
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Firewall (computing)
In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules.
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Hosts (file)
The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses.
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HTML email
HTML email is the use of a subset of HTML to provide formatting and semantic markup capabilities in email that are not available with plain text: Text can be linked without displaying a URL, or breaking long URLs into multiple pieces.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Internet of things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these things to connect and exchange data, creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, resulting in efficiency improvements, economic benefits, and reduced human exertions.
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IP address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
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LoJack for Laptops
LoJack for Laptops (originally known as CompuTrace) is a proprietary laptop theft recovery software (laptop tracking software) with features including the abilities to remotely lock, delete files from, and locate the stolen laptop on a map.
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Mainframe computer
Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing.
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Malware
Malware (a portmanteau for malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server or computer network.
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Nuclear facilities in Iran
Anarak, near Yazd, has a nuclear waste storage site.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Product activation
Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary computer software programs.
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Server (computing)
In computing, a server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called "clients".
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Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal
A scandal erupted in 2005 regarding Sony BMG's implementation of deceptive, illegal, and harmful copy protection measures on about 22 million CDs.
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Spyware
Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization sometimes without their knowledge, that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, that asserts control over a device without the consumer's knowledge, or it may send such information to another entity with the consumer's consent, through cookies.
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Stuxnet
Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm, first uncovered in 2010.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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URL
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
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Web beacon
A web beacon or web bug is one of various techniques used on web pages or email, to unobtrusively (usually invisibly) allow checking that a user has accessed some content.
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Web server
Web server refers to server software, or hardware dedicated to running said software, that can serve contents to the World Wide Web.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoning_home
