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Anonymous (hacker group) Anonymous. An emblem that is commonly associated with Anonymous. The "man without a head" represents anonymity and leaderless organization. [ 1] Individuals appearing in public as Anonymous, wearing Guy Fawkes masks. Formation.
Roblox occasionally hosts real-life and virtual events. They have in the past hosted events such as BloxCon, which was a convention for ordinary players on the platform. [36] Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts [43] and also hosts an annual event called the "Bloxy Awards", an awards ceremony that also functions as a fundraiser. The 2020 ...
A revision of a Wikipedia article shows a troll vandalizing an article on Wikipedia by replacing content with an insult. In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online [ 1] (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real ...
The Shadow Brokers ( TSB) is a hacker group who first appeared in the summer of 2016. [ 1][ 2] They published several leaks containing hacking tools, including several zero-day exploits, [ 1] from the "Equation Group" who are widely suspected to be a branch of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States. [ 3][ 4] Specifically, these ...
EternalBlue[ 5] is a computer exploit software developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). [ 6] It is based on a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that allowed users to gain access to any number of computers connected to a network. The NSA knew about this vulnerability but did not disclose it to Microsoft for several years, since ...
Buffer overflow protection is any of various techniques used during software development to enhance the security of executable programs by detecting buffer overflows on stack -allocated variables, and preventing them from causing program misbehavior or from becoming serious security vulnerabilities. A stack buffer overflow occurs when a program ...
Troll farm. A troll farm or troll factory is an institutionalised group of internet trolls that seeks to interfere in political opinions and decision-making. [ 1] Freedom House 's report showed that 30 governments worldwide (out of 65 covered by the study) paid keyboard armies to spread propaganda and attack critics. [ 2]
Buffer over-read. In computer security and programming, a buffer over-read [1] [2] or out-of-bounds read [3] is an anomaly where a program, while reading data from a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and reads (or tries to read) adjacent memory. This is a special case of violation of memory safety . Buffer over-reads can be triggered, as ...