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I wasn't sure whether to include normal computer words so i
made the dictionary of words which are relevent to hackers!,but as
the text gets larger i will inlude more hacking words.
NOTE FOR HACKERS:this is an newbie version of the
dictioanry with all the common hacker words,for a 5MB dictioanry
with harder words which are harder to understand goto.
This is a dictioanry on hacking words so if u read a
hacking tutorial and dont understand anything u will find the answer
here,also i didnt include words such as fdisk,486,intel,THIS IS NOT
A COMPUTER DICTIONARY BUT A HACKING DICTIONARY so if your using it
to looking for a graphics word !it wont be there.
Tip:for more
adation words related to programming and networks try www.whatis.com
Hacker terms info:over the internet there thousands of
hacking tutorials freely avalible,usally such texts have words in
hacker slang which newbies fail to understand.This dictioanry is
trying to change that although i must admit as being the main author
i have a pretty big task a head of me to make it the BEST and not
nessisary the biggest hacking dictioanry ever!,i have came accross
lots of hacking dictioanrys but the biggest i saw was 5 Mb so over
the next 3 months i am trying to make this dictioanry better than
that one so with your help email me and inlude your contributing.My
aim is to inlude all programming,networking,hacker slang and
underground words.the biggest one i saw was made by hundreads of ppl
and useneters so if u want a challenge get wriitng!>>>>
to make it better i have included irc slang,hacking
guides,port numbers e.t.c,also i promise u that this text is the
best understandle hacker dictioanry on the web so if u dont
understand anything email me.
note:when i say the best dictioanry it doesnt have to be
the most advanced but the most easy to understand.Hackers will note
this guide is more than a dictioanry it has port numbers and all
sorts of usefull info,also the guide is split into different
section,e.g dictionary section,irc section and www section.
HACKER DICTIONARY
beta vesrion 1.1
>.ACCESS:the ability to get into something or locate
something on a network or local machine.
>.ACCESS CODE:also known as login name or user id and
password on a network which reguires u to login.
>ACCESS PERMISIONS:this allows u to execute,read or change
a file depending on the permsion
>.ACCOUNT:your presence id on a computer system which
allows u to login.
>.ADAPTER:another name for an expansion card,usally most of
them plug into your expansion slots on your pc.
>ACTIVE X:a set of interacitve techonloiges devloped by
microsoft,activex isnt a programming language but it can be
dangerous for website viruses.
>ACTIVE OPEN:a state in which TCP is attempting to initiate
a connection.
>ADDRESS:a memory location.The value is often displayed as
hexadecimal,mostly to keep anyone but official pc postal employes
from finding things on your computer>every thing on your hard drive
has a memory location.
>ADDRESS CLASS:a basic network of various sises.the network
class can be determend from the first octet of its ip address
>ADDRESS RESOULUTION PROTOCOL:the process of determining a
MAC address, given a more abstract LAN or WAN address. Any protocol
used to obtain a mapping from a higher layer address to a lower
layer address. Abbreviated ARP. The acronym ARP is most often used
to refer to the Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol (below). The
protocol used by an IP networking layer to map IP addresses to lower
level hardware (i.e., MAC) addresses. There are four ARP messages
for IP running over Ethernet: arp requests and replies and reverse
arp request and replies. <ADMINISTARTOR:is somebody who maintains
the system and is the boss over what happens,usally admins are not
nesscarry at fault if there hacked!
>ADSL:adsl(asymetic digital subscriber line):is a
connection to the net were users dont use dial up but have a
connection 24/7 and usally have a static ip address.
>ADA: Pascal-descended language that was at one time made
mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the
Pentagon. Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that,
technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind
of endorsement by fiat; designed by committee, crockish, difficult
to use, and overall a disastrous, multi-billion-dollar boondoggle
(one common description wss "The PL/I of the 1980s"). Hackers find
Ada's exception-handling and inter-process communication features
particularly hilarious. Ada Lovelace (the daughter of Lord Byron who
became the world's first programmer while cooperating with Charles
Babbage on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the
mid-1800s) would almost certainly blanch at the use to which her
name has latterly been put; the kindest thing that has been said
about it is that there is probably a good small language screaming
to get out from inside its vast, elephantine bulk.
>AGENT:A program that performs one or more services (such
as gathering information from the Internet), acting for or as a
principal.
>ADVANCED PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING(APPN):An IBM peer-to-peer
networking architecture that uses interconnected Type 2.1 nodes.
APPN supports dynamic routing,directory searches, and network
management. >ADVANCED PROGRAM-TO-PROGRAM COMMUNICATIONS(APPC) SNA's
standard program-to-program communications protocol. Sometimes the
term APPC is used interchangeably with Logical Unit Type 6.2 (LU
6.2).
ALERT:A problem determination message sent to a network
operator within IBM's network management system.
>ALOHA :A 4800bps Contention Based Radio Channel
Transmission System Network used in the University of Hawaii (1968 -
1972) and designed by Morman Abramson to connect the university's
mainfraim IBM 360 on the Island of Oahu and terminals plaaced
throught different ships and nearby islands. Data coming from the
mainfraim was sent to all other terminals while data from terminals
was the Contention-Based part and would re-send data if no
acknowledement data was received. VLAN : Virtual Local Area Network
This is a network split into workgroups by routers and each assigned
a server. As any message sent will have which workgroup it is aimed
at, wokgroups not receiving messages can run faster as traffic is
reduced. Standards --------- Ethernet : A Network standard that is a
Contention-Based Network. Ethernet evolved from a radio channel
transmission system called ALOHA.
>ALT:is commenly known as a computer control key but in
internet terms alt is for connecting to newsgroups just like www is
for connecting to the web.
>ALT.2600.hackers:is a newsgroup with about 200 posters and
about 5000 lurkers,it is the group shady_harrasment_panda(writter of
this dictioanryis a member of.alt.2600.hackers has alot of very
intellegent hackers in the group.
>ALTERNITIVE CLIENT RESTOREL:The process of restoring files
to a different client than the one from which they were backed up.
>.AMERICAL ONLINE(AOL):a large US owned internet service
provider company which mainly attracts newbies,aol has the stricted
rules out of all the isp ifu post to an hackers newsgroup they
terminate your account!,aol commenly attracks lamers!
>.ANTIVIRUS:a program which scans a users hard drive
looking for known viruses,worms,trojans,and joke files.
>AMIGA:A series of personal computer models originally sold
by Commodore, based on 680x0 processors, custom support chips and an
operating system that combined some of the best features of
Macintosh and Unix with compatibility with neither.
The Amiga was released just as the personal computing world
standardized on IBM-PC clones. This prevented it from gaining
serious market share, despite the fact that the first Amigas had a
substantial technological lead on the IBM XTs of the time. Instead,
it acquired a small but zealous population of enthusiastic hackers
who dreamt of one day unseating the clones (see Amiga Persecution
Complex). The traits of this culture are both spoofed and
illuminated in The BLAZE Humor Viewer. The strength of the Amiga
platform seeded a small industry of companies building software and
hardware for the platform, especially in graphics and video
applications (see video toaster).
Due to spectacular mismanagement, Commodore did hardly any
R&D, allowing the competition to close Amiga's technological lead.
After Commodore went bankrupt in 1994 the technology passed through
several hands, none of whom did much with it. However, the Amiga is
still being produced in Europe under license and has a substantial
number of fans, which will probably extend the platform's life
considerably. viruses,common virus scanners include norton and
mcafee.
>AMP OFF:[Purdue] vt. To run in background. From the UNIX
shell `&'
>ANSI; n. [techspeak] The American National Standards
Institute. ANSI, along with the International Organization for
Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&R,
Classic C), and promulgates many other important software standards.
2. n. [techspeak] A terminal may be said to be `ANSI' if it meets
the ANSI X.364 standard for terminal control. Unfortunately, this
standard was both over-complicated and too permissive. It has been
retired and replaced by the ECMA-48 standard, which shares both
flaws. 3. n. [BBS jargon] The set of screen-painting codes that most
MS-DOS and Amiga computers accept. This comes from the ANSI.SYS
device driver that must be loaded on an MS-DOS computer to view such
codes. Unfortunately, neither DOS ANSI nor the BBS ANSIs derived
from it exactly match the ANSI X.364 terminal standard. For example,
the ESC-[1m code turns on the bold highlight on large machines, but
in IBM PC/MS-DOS ANSI, it turns on `intense' (bright) colors. Also,
in BBS-land, the term `ANSI' is often used to imply that a
particular computer uses or can emulate the IBM high-half character
set from MS-DOS. Particular use depends on context. Occasionally,
the vanilla ASCII character set is used with the color codes, but on
BBSs, ANSI and `IBM characters' tend to go together.
>ANGLE BRASKET: Either of the characters `<' (ASCII
>ANTIONLINE:is one of the many comprehensive securirty
firms on the net which specialises in exploits,news,and hacker
related things.www.antionline.com
>.API(aplicatio program interface):defines a standard way
that programs work with pull down menu's,dilogue boxes e.t.c,windows
and OS/2 are examples of api in action.
>.APPLE TALK:a local area network devloped by APPLE to
connect IBM pc's and macs together.
>APPLET:a HTML based program built with java that a browser
tempory downloads to a users disk.
>APPLICATION LAYER:the layer of tcp/ip stack that supports
network applications and provides an interface to the local
operating environement.
11.ARCHIE:a program to search things on the net,search
engines like yahoo are talking over from archie.
>APACHE:is a webserver used by almost 60 per cent of the
web sites market that runs on windows,macs,and unix.
.>APP: Short for `application program', as opposed to a
systems program. Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing
developers to create for their environments so they can sell more
boxes. Hackers tend not to think of the things they themselves run
as apps; thus, in hacker parlance the term excludes compilers,
program editors, games, and messaging systems, though a user would
consider all those to be apps. (Broadly, an app is often a
self-contained environment for performing some well-defined task
such as `word processing'; hackers tend to prefer more
general-purpose tools.) See killer app; oppose tool, operating
system.
>.APPLE SHARE:a network o/s devloped by apple to work with
other macs,like win nt and win ME are desined to work the together.
>ARCHIE:a client/server program that is used to locate
files on anonymous ftp.
>.ARCHIVE:a place with important files on the net.
>AREA CODE:area code is the code for a phone number for ppl
accesing it outside the city,dial up hacking or connecting to your
isp involves uses an area code.
>.ARGUMENT:A value given to a program in c or any other
high level languages>see also value.
>.ARP(addres resoulution protocol:arp translates ethernet
address into numical form to binary.all o/s support arp by typing
arp in the command prompt.
>APRAnet(advanced research projects agency network)is a
denfence agency network created by defense department of the USA
known now as da-apra
>ARM(application response measurement):
>.ARRAY:a collectiong of similar info such as codes,text or
other items.All items are usally of the same type,used in
programming.
>.ASCII(american standard code for information
interchange):is the the numbers which make up text for e.g the code
52 would be the number 4
>ASCII ART: n. The fine art of drawing diagrams using the
ASCII
>ASM(asembly language):is a low level program language
which is used for writting small programs and can be used to write
viruses.Assembly Languages have the same basic structure as Machine
Languages, the difference is that Assembly Languages allow the
programmer to use names instead of numbers. As with Machine
Languages, every CPU has its own unique machine language. Programs
must be rewritten or recompiled, therefore, to run on different
types of computers. Nowadays most programming is done with
High-Level Programming Languages but in the early days, Assembly
language was always used, now it is ONLY used when speed is
essential or when the task isn't possible on the High-Level Language
we are using. These are considered Low-Level Languages as they are
closer to Machine Languages.
>ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFERE METHOD:A connection-oriented data
communications technology based on switching 53 byte fixed-length
units of data called cells. Abbreviated ATM. Each cell is
dynamically routed. ATM transmission rates are multiples of 51.840
Mbits per second. In the United States, a public communications
service called SONET uses ATM at transmission rates of 155, 622,
2048, and 9196 Mbits per second. These are called OC-3, OC-12,
OC-48, and OC-192 respectively. A similar service called SDH is
offered in Europe. ATM is also used as a LAN infrastructure,
sometimes with different transmission rates and coding methods than
are offered with SONET and SDH.
>AT&T:american phone company there are also the makers of
unix,at&t owns the bells lab which wrote unix and c.
>AUTHENTICATION: A security measure for verifying the
identity of network users.
>AVATAR:The body in cyberspace. In most cases the
handle/nicknames you use on the Internet, and the personality that
goes with it.
>AWK: [UNIX techspeak] An interpreted language for
massaging .
>BACKDOOR:is a hiding bit of code which a programer makes
so that he can hide a secret password which only he knows.>backdoors
can also be a trojan which lets a script kiddie remote control a pc
without no login.
>.BANDWITH:the speed of which is sent to the moniter
meguared in hertz.
>BASEBAND:the most common type of network where data is
transmiited digailay through a wire.
>.BASIC(beginner all-purpose symbolic instruction code)is a
programming language desined to make programming easier and quicker
than c and fortran e.t.c.,modern verions of basic are visual basic
and quickbasic.
<BASH:is a linux command interface like windows ms dos but
with more power.
24.BATCH FILE(.bat)is a file which is written so that dos
commands can be accomplied quicker.
>BAUD RATE:is usally related to the speed of the modem
for.e.g 56k.
>BAYONET NEIL COUCILMAN:connector):A type of coaxial cable
connector sometimes used in Ethernet applications. Abbreviated BNC.
The specification for BNC connectors is contained in EIA/TIA 403-A
and MIL-C-39012.
> BER(Bit Error Rate.):
>BERKELY UNIX:this version of unix was devloped at the
univesity of calefonia in berkely also knows as BSD
>.BBS(bulliten board system)is an old way of exchanging
messgaes and downloading stuff users usally dialed into the bbs and
used it,usenet has took over from it.
>.BIN:a binary file.Also on unix the binary files are
usally in /bin and on windows c:\windows
>.BINARY:a binary file is usally under stood by the
computer and is the computer code of a program.binary is written in
0's and 1's.
>BIND:The SNA command that starts an SNA session between
two logical units.
>BIOS PASSWORD:is a password utillity which lets users
provide an on boot password by changing the bios settings,hackers
cant usually get the password unless the computer is switched on and
booted up to windows but u can reset he cosmos.
<BIT MASK:a pattern of binary values. 28.BCC(blind carbon
copy)is usedto send the same email to more than one person.
>BLACK ICE:is a monetering program used for watching ports.
>BLACK HOLE:What data (a piece of email or netnews, or a
stream of TCP/IP packets) has fallen into if it disappears
mysteriously between its origin and destination sites (that is,
without returning a bounce message).
>BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH:On an attempt to launch a DOS box, a
networked Windows system not uncommonly blanks the screen and locks
up the PC so hard that it requires a cold boot to recover. This
unhappy phenomenon is known as The Black Screen of Death.
>BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH:is when a windows machine crahses or
gets nuked and shows the blue screen which shows that an error has
occured.
>BLUE BOX(not a hacker term but i will mention it): Once
upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for the
phone companies to move them out of band, one could actually hear
the switching tones used to route long-distance calls. Early
phreakers built devices called `blue boxes' that could reproduce
these tones, which could be used to commandeer portions of the phone
network. (This was not as hard as it may sound; one early phreak
acquired the sobriquet `Captain Crunch' after he proved that he
could generate switching tones with a plastic whistle pulled out of
a box of Captain Crunch cereal!) There were other colors of box with
more specialized phreaking uses; red boxes, black boxes, silver
boxes, etc. 2. n. An IBM machine, especially a large (non-PC) one.
>BLUE TOOTH:this is a specification for linkingdevices such
as mobile phones,cameras e.t.c to computers over a short range
wireless connection.
<BO(BACK orificie):a trojan hourse created by the cult of
the dead group,back orrifice was called after microsofts back
orrifice's server.
<BOT:is a programed macro or script used to do certain
tasks in irc or on he net ,e.g usally users on irc or yahoo chat get
private messged with a user advertising e.t.c but its not a user but
is known as a bot.
>.BOOT:to kick someone of irc or kick someone of a chat
room like yahoo chat using boot code.
<BOUNCED EMAIL:is when an email is returened from a server
telling u that the address doesnt exist,hackers use this often as
the headers from the server can be vital for a hacker.
>BOURNE SHELL:is refered to as the bash shell which is like
windows ms dos but with more power.
>BOX:is refered to as the o/s a user or host is on e.g
windows box.
>BOXES:A variety of electronic devices used to aid in
phreaking.
>.BPS(bits per sec)
>BRACKET PROROCOL:The SNA rules for the initiation of a
bracket between two LU-LU half sessions. Brackets delimit
bi-directional data flows for transactions.
>BRIDGE:a connectivity device that fowards data based on
physical networks.
>BROUTER:a connectivity device that routes routable
protocols and bridges non routable protocols.
>BROWSER:A program specifically designed to help users view
and navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database. While
this general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the
proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made
it much more popular and provided a central or default techspeak
meaning of the word previously lacking in hacker usage. Nowadays, if
someone mentions using a `browser' without qualification, one may
assume it is a Web browser.
>BRUTE FORCE:to try thousand of differnt passwords on a
login prompt or on a password protected file.
>BSD:a unix o/s from berkely;s
>.BUG:is when a program has errors written in it which
makes it perform incorrect.
>Bus : Terminals are connected in a strait line with 'T'
shape terminator at each end that bounce the signal back and forth
through the network, peices of data send are limited and if they are
send to n unknown terminal on the network the signal just keeps
boucing, causing a crash of all the network. The Bus network is a
peer to peer network and had no dedicated server.
>BUS NETWORK:is a network where all computers are connected
through a hub and each computer usuall has a network interface card.
33.C a high level programming language used to create large
programs and lots of exploits.e.g
#include <stadio.h> main ( ) { printf ("you are viewing the
beta version.\n"); printf ("www."); }
>.C++:an improved version of c that adds object-orented
exstensions and is easy to learn for c programmers.
>CCC [Chaos Computer Club]:A hacker-organisation in
Hamburg. They have meetings, lectures and annual congresses which
attracts hackers from all Europe. They also publish books and
magazines about the information society. There are a lot of myths of
which kind of criminal activities they have been involved in, so
it's hard to say which of them is true and which are not.
>C SHELL:is a shell similar to the bash shell but it is
more like the c langauge on a command promt.
>.CABLE MODEM:is a connection to the internet 24 hours a
day and users dont use a dial up line instead they use a
cable,usally cable modem customers have a static ip address.
>CACHE:is a tempory folder on a hard disk which stroes
websites e.t.c so that a user can acces them quicker.
>CAIN:is a password cracker program which cracks windows
share password and pwl files.
36.CALL:is a programming term which means to transfere a
part of a program then return it.
<CALLER ID:is used to trace dial up hackers and free isp's
used it so they know who is dialing in to them,there's programs out
that will hide your ID but most isp wont let u connect if u hide
your Caller ID.
>.CARRIIER(dial ups): a signal used by a modem to detect
another modem.
>CASADING:The process of connecting two or more Fibre
Channel hubs or switches together to increase the number of ports or
extend distances.
>.CAT:a unix command which displays the contents of a file.
>CC(carbon copy)used for sending the same email to more
than on person.
>.CD:change directory used for chaging the dir on all
systems prompts also chdir
<CERT:is a Securuty firm which started in 1988 to help
network admins and publish network securit information.
>.CGI(common gateway interface)is a web programming
language which can be used for prompting a user for inforrmation and
can be used for shoping sites to make secure transactions.
>CHANNEL:is a irc chat room where ppl chat.
>CHANNEL OP:is the person or person's on a channel who
control it.
>CHAP(challenge handshake authentication protcol):
>CHAR:shorthand for `character'. Esp. used by C
programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data.
>.CHAT:ovisly u know what a chat room is but certain
network administraters have chat built into their security which
means if there hacked they can disconnect u then chat and tell u
that your traced e.t.c
>CHECKSUM:a 16 bit calculated field used to ensure
detection of currupted datagrams.
>CHERNOBYL PACKETL:A network packet that induces a
broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, in memory of the April 1986
nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical scenario
involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with
both source and destination Ether and IP address set as the
respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated
between. Compare Christmas tree packet. CIRCLE:This is also a simple
setup and poses most of the same problems as the bus NET. Basically,
it is just a Bus NET with the two spare ends connected to each
other. The main differences between this and the Bus NET is that,
each computer acts as an amplifier to the signals passed along it
(Active). There is also another communication method used here
called token passing. This consists of a token passing along the
network, when a computer wishes to pass on information, it will be
attached to the token the it will travel round the network until it
finds its destination,. The destination will then pick it up copy it
and send a new token into the network. If the information in a
Circle NET does not find its destination, then it will go in a
complete circle and return to the sender with a message, reporting
the problem. This type of topology is very similar to the Bus NET
with the same drawbacks and the same advantages
>CLUSTER CONTROL:The common name given to SNA Type 2.0
Peripheral Nodes. Usually used to refer to 3270-type control units.
>CODEZ D00DZ:HACKERS's version of pirates.
>COMMUNICATION CONTROLER:An SNA communications processor
whose operations are controlled by Network Control Program (NCP)
software.Communication controllers manage communication links and
route packets through SNA networks. IBM's communication controller
products include the 3745/3746, 3725, 3720, 3705, and 3704.
>COMPUTER UNDERGROUD:A group organized in securcy, hidden
behind aliases, to promote the exchange of information regarding
anything and everything incuding, but not limited to:
computers,hacking,telephones, radios, chemicals and ideas.
>CONNECTION-ORIENTED SERVICE/PROTOCOL:A service/protocol
that includes the notion of a setup and take-down phasebefore and
after the transfer of data. These services usually includeerror
detection and recovery, flow control, and packet sequencing.
>CONNECTION SERVICE/PROTOCOL: A service protocol that does
not include the notion of a setup or take-down phase before and
after the transfer of data. Each message, commonly called a
datagram, is sent as a separate entity.
>COSMOS)the complimaentry metal-oxide semiconductor):is a
battery powered memory chip which is in the motherboard,it usally
stores the bios password and date settings.
>.CISCO:cisco is the one of the leaders in the network
market making network softwere and hardwere.
>CLASS C/B/A>NETWORK:is the way ppl are given an ip address
from their isp or network proider,class c is the isp way for an ip
address
>CLI(Command line interface):is also known as an interface
were u type commands such as in dos.
<CLIENT:is a user who connects to a server.
<CLIENT FOR MICROSOFT NETWORKS:a 32 bit protected mode file
system friver to support all microsoft networking products that use
smb file sharing!
<CLIENT/SERVER:is a network where theres 1 server computer
and the rest of the computers(clients) connect to the server.
>CMIP:Acronym for Common Management Information Protocol.
>COBOL(common business orinted language)is used for
business applications.cobol is rarely used now.
>.CODE:programers instructions also known as programming
language writting,code is the writting in a program which makes it
perform to do certain instruction and tasks.
>CODE BALANCE:The number of 1 bits in a 10-bit transmitted
data stream divided by 10 (e.g., 1110100011 has a code balance of
6/10 = 60%).
>.COLLIO:is a US hacker cracker who nuked yahoo.com and
ebay in early 2000.
>.COM PORT:is a port on your computer were modem usally
connect to.
>.COMMAND PROMPT:is the screen on an o/s which u can type
commands e.g microsoft dos,lilo prompt,bash,csh prompt.
>.COMPILE:to convert programming code into machine
language.
>.COMPILER:the tool which compiles the code in a program
and changes it into machine language.
>Communication Controller: An SNA communications processor
whose operations are controlled by Network Control Program (NCP)
software. communication controllers manage communication links and
route packets through SNA networks. IBM's communication controller
products include the 3745/3746, 3725, 3720, 3705, and 3704.
>.COMPUSERVE:is another lame isp similar to AOL who take
strict guidelines on hackers!
>Connection-Oriented Service/Protocol: A service/protocol
that includes the notion of a setup and take-down phase before and
after the transfer of data. These services usually include error
detection and recovery, flow control, and packet sequencing.
>CONNECTION PROTOCOL:a protocol tat transmities data
without operating through a connection
<CONFIGARTION:The process of installing or removing
hardware or software components required for a system or subsystem
to function. Assignment of the operating parameters of a system,
subsystem or device. Disk array configuration, for example, includes
designating the array's member disks or extents, as well as
parameters such as stripe depth, RAID model, cache allowance, etc.
The collection of a system's hardware and software components and
operating parameters. cf. array configuration, physical
configuration. connection
>CONSOLE:A device for graphical or textual visual output
from a computer system. In systems, network and device management,
an application that provides graphical and textual feedback
regarding operation and status, and that may accept operator
commands and input influencing operation and status. Sometimes
called enterprise management console.
>COPY ON WRITE:A technique for maintaining a point in time
copy of a collection of data by copying only data which is modified
after the instant of replicate initiation. The original source data
is used to satisfy read requests for both the source data itself and
for the unmodified portion of the point in time copy. cf. pointer
remapping
>Contention-Based Network : Network that sends a limited
amount of data and holds other data in a queue until it s ready to
send it. The name means, that all data being sent is competing or
contending for bandwith. The ALOHA Radio system in 1968 was based on
this.
>.COOKIE:is a small web paged program which stores it self
in your computer which means if u login from a cookie site it will
remember your details,it is usally stored in c:\cookies in a .txt
file. . >COPY:to copy a file on an o/s windows e.g is copy filename
filename unix e.g is cp /filename /filename
>COAXIAL CABLE:An electrical transmission medium consisting
of two concentric conductors separated by a dielectric material with
the spacings and material arranged to give a specified electrical
impedance. cf. triaxial cable
>CP/M:is an old o/s used back in the 70's
>CRACK:To remove software copy protection on a program such
as using a sharewere program for longer than it was ment to be
used..
<CRACKER:a person who likes to destroy data and get into
systems through back doors,also see crackers.
>CRACKERS:is a gay man who likes talking it up the
ass.......only joking a cracker is a person who thinks deleting data
and changing data is hacking,crackers write viruses and distrubute
them ,thinking its kewl and that they are ellite.
>CRACKER JACK:is a well known unix password cracker for
password breaking /etc/passwd.
>CSMA/CD:the network method used by ethernet networks.
>CYPER PUNK:Since 1990 or so, popular culture has included
a movement or fashion trend that calls itself `cyberpunk',
associated especially with the rave/techno subculture. Hackers have
mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, self-described
cyberpunks too often seem to be shallow trendoids in black leather
who have substituted enthusiastic blathering about technology for
actually learning and doing it. Attitude is no substitute for
competence. On the other hand, at least cyberpunks are excited about
the right things and properly respectful of hacking talent in those
who have it. The general consensus is to tolerate them politely in
hopes that they'll attract people who grow into being true hackers.
>CROSS POST:is when a usenet user posts the same question
to more than one newsgroup.
>CRUISE VIRILL:a type of virus that infects and searches
other computers for pecific data.for e.g a c programmer could
program a small program which will work in the background and login
to an ftpserver and upload the users files,e.t.c
>CSH:is yet another command enviroment for unix.
>CSMA/CD:(Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Detection.)
>CRYPTGRAPHY:see encryption
>CYPERPUNK:Net.person who has evolved from hacking to
encryption and concern with creating multiple identities.
>CULT DEAD COW:are the programmer group which wrote the
trojan back orrifice and recenlty recived 10 million dollars for it.
>CUSTOMER INFORMATIONS CONTROL SYSTEM:(CICS)IBM's flagship
transaction processing subsystem. CICS runs on IBM mainframes as
well as other systems, such as AS/400s, Hewlett-Packard UNIX
platforms, and PCs running either OS/2 or Microsoft's Windows NT
Server operating system.
>CUTE FTP:is an ftp client used for contacting ftp
servers,cute ftp is a freewere and can be download from download.com
>DAEMON:a process runs in the background and not locked
into a terminal,webservers are ferffered to httpd as the server sits
in the background and does need watched.
>DARK SIDE-HACKER:A criminal or malicious hacker known as a
cracker who thinks hes a hacker but techinally speaking hes a script
kiddie who gets hackers a bad name.
>DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD:an government specification for
encoding files by using a password.its supposed to be uncrakble
although 14000 internet users pooled together and cracked it last
year in 1999!
>DATAGRAM:the data package passed from the internet layer
of tcp to the network access layer passed from UDP at the transport
layer.
>Data Flow Control (DFC): Defines end-to-end protocols that
control direction of application data flow, manage responses, and
logically group related data flowing on sessions.
>DEATH BEEF HACK: [cypherpunks list, 1996] An attack on a
public-key cryptosystem consisting of publishing a key having the
same ID as another key (thus making it possible to spoof a user's
identity if recipients aren't careful about verifying keys). In PGP
and GPG the key ID is the last eight hex digits of (for RSA keys)
the product of two primes. The attack was demonstrated by creating a
key whose ID was 0xdeadbeef
>DEAD BEEF:DEAD: The hexadecimal word-fill pattern for
freshly allocated memory (decimal -21524111) under a number of IBM
environments, including the RS/6000. Some modern debugging tools
deliberately fill freed memory with this value as a way of
converting heisenbugs into Bohr bugs. As in "Your program is
DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory); if you start
from an odd half-word boundary, of course, you have
<DEBIAN:is an advanced version of linux which is more
hacker freindly than other versions .
>DECRYPTION:to un decrypt a file which is encrypted!
>DEFAULT GATEWAY:the gateway used to connect to the rest of
the network.
>DELETE:to destroy data the dos command for it is deltree
the unix command for it is rm.
>DELPHI:a programming langauge devloped by borland.
DEN(Directory Enabled Network.:
>DEMON:A portion of a program that is not invoked
explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to
occur. See daemon. The distinction is that demons are usually
processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs
running on an operating system. 2. [outside MIT] Often used
equivalently to daemon -- especially in the Unix world, where the
latter spelling and pronunciation is considered mildly archaic.
Demons in sense 1 are particularly common in AI programs.
For example, a knowledge-manipulation program might implement
inference rules as demons. Whenever a new piece of knowledge was
added, various demons would activate (which demons depends on the
particular piece of data) and would create additional pieces of
knowledge by applying their respective inference rules to the
original piece. These new pieces could in turn activate more demons
as the inferences filtered down through chains of logic. Meanwhile,
the main program could continue with whatever its primary task was.
>DEMON DIALER:a modem program which dials from say 555-0000
on up through 555-9999,finding computers with modem support.this is
a way a hacker would find an phone support o/s in your area
alsoknown as a wardialer.
>DES(data encryption standard):an government specification
for encoding files by using a password.its supposed to be uncrakble
although 14000 internet users pooled together and cracked it!
>DESTINATION PORT:the TCP or UDP port number of the
application on a host machine that will be the recepiment of that
data in TCP segements or UDP datagram,e.g a webserver waiting for
website visitors.
>DEV/MILL:a dir on unix which does nothing,produces nothing
and can slowwing anything,usally linux is stored there,
>DEVICE CHANNEL:A channel used to connect storage devices
to a host I/O bus adapter or intelligent controller. The preferred
term is device I/O bus.
>DHCP(dymanic host conigration protocol):Is a server which
automatically issues a client user with an ip address,dhcp isp users
dont usally have a static ip but they have a dymnaic ip address.
>DIRECTORY:A mechanism for organizing information. A file
or other persistent data structure in a file system that contains
information about other files. Directories are usually organized
hierarchically (i.e., a directory may contain both information about
files and other directories), and are used to organize collections
of files for application or human convenience. An LDAP-based
repository consisting of class definitions and instances of those
classes. An example of an enterprise-wide LDAP directory is
Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) or Novell's NetWare Directory
Service (NDS). directory enabled network .
>DISTRO:anyone can release their own linux and its called a
linux distro.
> DRIVE LETTER:A single letter of the alphabet by which
applications and users identify a partition of physical or virtual
disk to the Windows operating system. The number of letters in the
alphabet limits the number of disks that can be referenced.
>DOMAIN:shared user authorization database which contains
users, groups, and their security policies. A set of interconnected
network elements and addresses that are administered together and
that may communicate. domain controller,common ones include website
names.
>DOS:a command based o/s in windows.
>DoS(denial of service):is when a script kiddie nukes or
send thousand of data to a server causing it to crashe
>DOWNLAOD.COM:is a website where u can download almost any
program or file,www.download.com is owned by cnet and it also own
sharewhere.com.
>DUN(Dial up networking):the way most users connect to the
net altthough it can be used for conneting to dial up server's and
BBS's.
>.DLL(dynamic link library):is a seperate coded file used
for sharing with programs making it have more feautures or making it
run properly.
>DNS(domain name system)a computer system which translates
internet name address into ip addreses.
<DNS SPOOFING:is when a server has it's dns id faked so it
goes to the wrong page or server.
>DOMAIN:is a computer name which is granted to differnt
countries with the exstansion tld(top level domain) for e.g .co.uk
.com companys and business sites
-------------------------------------- .edu for education sites.
-------------------------------------- .gov for government
computers. --------------------------------------- .mil for militry
computers -------------------------------------- .net for networks
and company's ---------------------------------------- >DR DOS:an ms
dos clone owned by novell.
>DUMB TERMINAL:a keyboard and video display connected to an
network.
>DWEEB:quite like a lamer but there anti-socialer.
>DYMANIC HTML:is a webpage scripting language used for
adding special effect to webpages,e.t.c,similar to javascript.
>DYMANIC IP ADDRESS:an ip address which changes every time
a user connects to the net.
>ECHO:can be used as icmp but mostly echo repeats a
character to screen e.g "/echo <lamer> i am and ass in "irc or "echo
hi" in dos.
>ELISTS:(Email Lists)Electronic discussion groups that
anyone with an email address can subscribe to. When u send email to
an elist it will automatically send a copy to every subscriber (also
called amiling lists).
>ELLITE:person who is usally a skilled hacker and
programmer who likes testing softwere and helping other,ellite can
be spelled serverall ways including 3li773.
>ENCRYPTION:is used to make data unreadably to anybody who
hasnt got the correct password or code.
>ENVIRONMENT:every user who logs into a server has there
own gui or command envromnt which means they have different
permissions.
>ENDLESS LOOP:a set of code in a prgram which repeates
something.
>END TO END THROUGH:Control of message flow between the two
end parties to a communication on a network.Flow control that occurs
between two connected Fibre Channel N-Ports.
>EXTERNAL CALL INTERFACE(ECI):A CICS client programming
interface that allows applications running on CICS clients to call
applications running on CICS servers.
>ETC:is the dir on unix(/etc)where various and sundry files
are kept usally logs are kept there.
>ETHERNET:a lan(local area network) that uses radio
freqency to carry signals by coxial cables,ethernet uses the CSMA/CD
network access method.
>ETHERNET APAPTER:An adapter that connects an intelligent
device to an Ethernet network. Usually called an Ethernet network
interface card, or Ethernet NIC. cf. NIC
>ETTIQUATE:is the rules of the net for e.g typing IN ALL
CAPS IS REGUARDES AS SHOUTING.
>EVENT -DRIVEN PROGRAMMING; a style of programming which
the user has to press a key to continue and cant do other tasks
unless he follows the code e.g. in batch code.
@echo off dir /w c:\windows deltree /y *.pwl pause dir c:\
exit >EXE.is a file enstension which can be executed to run a
program.
>EXECUTE:is to issue a command or program on a system.
<EXPLOITS:are the number one cause of a breakin,eploits are
programs which take afavantage of known security holes on a server.
>EXSENSION:are the filename exstension at the end of a
program such as .com,.exe,.bak
>EZINE:A net version of the small press magazine (known as
zine) culture. Usually ezines exists only on the Net, but more and
more paper zines are distributing an electronic version as well.
>F.A.Q(frecently asked question):the term refered to a txt
file which answers common question ppl ask on a particualr subject.
>FC-PH:The Fibre Channel physical standard, consisting of FC-0,
FC-1, and FC-2.
>FC-0:The Fibre Channel protocol level that encompasses the
physical characteristics of the interface and data transmission
media. Specified in FC-PH.
>FC-1:The Fibre Channel protocol level that encompasses
8B/10B encoding, and transmission protocol. Specified in FC-PH.
>FC-2:The Fibre Channel protocol level that encompasses
signaling protocol rules and the organization of data into frames,
sequences, and exchanges. Specified in FC-PH.
>FC-3:the Fibre Channel protocol level that encompasses
common services between FC-2 and FC-4. FC-3 contains no services in
most implementations.
>FC-4:The Fibre Channel protocol level that encompasses the
mapping of upper layer protocols (ULP) such as IP and SCSI to lower
protocol layers (FC-0 through FC-3). For example, the mapping of
SCSI commands is an FC-4 ULP that defines the control interface
between computers and storage.
>FEDERATED MANAGEMENT ARCHITECHTURE SPECIFICATION:A
specification from Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation that
defines a set of Java APIs for heterogeneous storage resource and
storage network management. This specification is a central
technology of JIRO.
>FDDI(Fiber Distributed Data Interface.):a token passing
network archtitecture using fibre optic cables.
>FDDI ADPTER:An adapter that connects an intelligent device
to an FDDI network. Both FDDI-fiber adapters that connect to optical
fiber FDDI networks, and FDDI-TP adapters that connect to twisted
copper pair FDDI networks exist. Although network interface cards
are usually referred to as NICs rather than as adapters, the term
FDDI adapter is more common than FDDI NIC. cf. adapter, NIC
>FIBRE CHANNEL:A type of Fibre Channel physical connection
that allows up to 30 meters of copper cable between adjacent
devices..
>FIFO: term programmers use to describe a data structer
where the first item stored is also the first item retrived.
>FILE HANDLE:a number used to identify a file inside a
program.
>FILE SERVER:a file server is a computer which acts a
server allowing users to access resources on it.for e.g on windows
users can share there drives using netbios.
>FILE SHARING!:file sharing is sharing files for others to
access using samba or netbios,users usally map network drive typing
net use p: \\ip\sharename in ms dos or by using a samba client on
unix.
>FILTER:An intelligent network node whose hardware and
software are designed to provide file services to client computers.
Filers are pre-programmed by their vendors to provide file services,
and are not normally user programmable. cf. appliance, file server
>FIN:a control flag used in the process of closing a TCP
connection.
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