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E-mail aliasing: The practice of having multiple e-mail addresses all resolve to a single e-mail address. For example, a small business has an employee with the e-mail address jones@smallbiz.com. This person is responsible for the sales and customer service of the company that have the separate e-mail addresses sales@smallbiz.com and service@smallbiz.com to handle the business of those divisions. Mail coming in to those two e-mail addresses will be forwarded by a mail relay to the e-mail address jones@smallbiz.com so that the employee does not need to check three separate e-mail accounts to read the messages that are sent to the three different addresses. Dicom: Short for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, a standard in the field of medical informatics for exchanging digital information between medical imaging equipment (such as radiological imaging) and other systems, ensuring interoperability. XSS: An
abbreviation of cross-site scripting. XSS is a security breach that
takes advantage of dynamically generated Web pages. In an XSS attack, a
Web application is sent with a script that activates when it is read by
an unsuspecting user’s browser or by an application that has not
protected itself against cross-site scripting. Because dynamic Web sites
rely on user input, a malicious user can input malicious script into the
page by hiding it within legitimate requests. Common exploitations
include search engine boxes, online forums and public-accessed blogs. Censorware: A
category of software that is also referred to as Internet blocking or
Internet filtering software. Censorware limits the user’s access to
content on the Internet. The term is often used pejoratively as it
implies that certain Internet content is being censored from the user,
not filtered. Libraries and schools commonly use this type of filtering
software to restrict its users from accessing pornography. However, the
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