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Macro Virus
Macro virus is a program written in the macro
language which is provided with some software
applications (word processors, spreadsheets, etc.)
To propagate, macro viruses exploit the capabilities
of the macro languages to transfer themselves
from one infected file (document or spreadsheet)
to another.
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Mail Bomb
A mail bomb is the sending of a massive amount
of email to a specific person or system. A huge
amount of mail may simply fill up the recipient's
disk space on the server or, in some cases, may
be too much for a server to handle and may cause
the server to stop functioning.
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Malicious Code Attack
Malicious code refers to viruses, worms, spyware,
Trojan horses and other undesirable software.
Attack made by using such software is to cause
disruption either by deleting files, sending emails,
or rendering the host system inoperable.
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Man in the Middle (MITM) Attack
A man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) is an attack in which an attacker sits between two parties (the sender and receiver), captures and modify the communication messages of the two parties, and then sends the modified messages to the two parties.
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Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
Mandatory Access Control (MAC) is an authorisation approach in which access to objects is based on the sensitivity of the information contained in the objects.
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Message Digest
A compact representative of a message that is
created by a cryptographic algorithm. It changes
with the original message.
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Multipartite
A multipartite virus uses more than one mechanism
to infect, such as combining the capabilities
of both boot sector viruses and file infector
viruses.
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