Glossary

A public key cryptosystem based on the practical difficulty of factoring the product of two large prime numbers.

A type of scam involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining their affection, and then using that goodwill to commit fraud. This may involve access to the victim's money, bank accounts, credit cards, passports, email accounts, or national identification numbers or forcing the victims to commit financial fraud on their behalf. Often called dating and romance scams.

A tool or set of tools used by an attacker in order to compromise a system, gain the highest level of privilege, and then hide their activity.

A networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks.

Originally RDF Site Summary; later, two competing approaches emerged, which used the backronyms Rich Site Summary and Really Simple Syndication respectively.

Real-time Transport Protocol