With a view to keeping pace with the malicious or susceptive activities of spammers, scammers and malware designers, an assortment of new words & terms are constantly coming into existence. A few general security-inspired neologisms the users will not be able to discover in the normal grimy dictionary are: adware, spyware and malware. But, there are the existence of lot more and many more obscure ones too. Let’s find out them.
(1) “Spam,” is the term that draws its origin out of the famous Monty Python spam sketch, and this term has these days spawned or brought about en-number of lesser-identified siblings such as spit & spim, or “spam via Internet telephony” and “spam via IM.”
(2) “ph” words, ide est, phishing, phreaking and pharming–, all of these ‘ph’ words strap themselves into the convention of the hacker of making use of ‘alternative” phonetic spellings.
(3) Hacktivism & hackmail, these are the terms that reveal are related to the politically inspired hacking and the act of blackmailing a Web site for the sake of money by making use of a threat to lead it offline. This is increasingly experienced by the online gaming sites.
Some more multicolored neologisms are the followings:
“logicbomb,” “scriptkiddie,” “bruteforce,” “honeypot,” “sniffer” and “zombie.”
