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that defines a set of acceptable software, e-mail senders, or other components, then bans everything else.
    WikiLeaks: An online organization formed in 2006 with the goal of “exposing corruption and abuse around the world.” It is also frequently used to refer to a series of scandals in 2010, when a trove of US diplomatic cables were released online.
    worm: A type of malware that spreads automatically over a network, installing and replicating itself. The network traffic from rapid replication and spread can cripple networks even when the malware does not have a malicious payload.
    zero day: An attack that exploits a previously unknown vulnerability; taken from the notion that the attacks takes places on the zeroth day of the awareness. Knowledge about zero-day exploits are valuable to both defenders and attackers.
    zombie: A computer that has been compromised by an outside party, for the purpose of exploiting its computational and network resources; frequently linked into a botnet.