by Mark Ward, Technology Correspondent, BBC News website

Like many subjects, information security comes with its own terminology and the jargon can be opaque to outsiders. Below is the list of terms in the Glossary that helps shed light on the murky world of cyber crime.

DCL: I thought it might be interesting to compare it with our event processing glossary.  Note the links into the definitions in the glossary don’t work, my fault!  Enjoy!

Hi-Tech Crime Glossary

Adware Blackhat Bot Botnet Botnet herder Bullet-proof hosting Carder Cash-out Channel Cross-site scripting Dead-drop DDoS Drive-by download Exploit Firewall Honeypot IP Address

IRC Keylogger Malware Man-in-the-middle Packet sniffing Phishing Port Roots Script kiddie Spyware TCP Trojan Virus Whitehat Worm Zero day Zombie