Adware
Malware built specifically to flood a device with unwanted ads.
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- The Prize Bunny Never Won (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 5)
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Related terms
- 3-2-1 rule A backup guideline of 3 copies, on 2 storage types, with 1 copy kept physically separate.
- Advance-fee fraud Paying a small amount upfront for a bigger reward that was never going to arrive.
- Adversarial example An input changed slightly, often invisibly to people, to fool an AI.
- Agentic AI An AI system that can take real actions, not just generate text responses.
- AI supply chain attack Tampering with a model, dataset or code library before people download and use it.
- Alert fatigue The tendency to ignore warnings after being shown too many false or low-value ones.