It is 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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• It is a self-replicating program that infects computer and spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents.
• This hacker is someone outside computer security consulting firms that are used to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed.
• It is a tool used to quickly check computers on a network for known weaknesses.
• It is a prepared application that takes advantage of a known weakness.
• Like a virus, it is also a self-replicating program. The difference between a virus and it is that a worm does not create copies of itself on one system: it propagates through computer networks.
• It is a toolkit for hiding the fact that a computer’s security has been compromised, is a general description of a set of programs which work to subvert control of an operating system from its legitimate (in accordance with established rules) operators.
• It is a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining illegitimate access.
• This hacker is a hacker of ambiguous ethics and/or borderline legality, often frankly admitted.
• Viruses that fool a user into downloading and/or executing them by pretending to be useful applications are also sometimes called?
• It is a software program designed to record (‘log’) every keystroke on the machine on which it runs