Logging In

Logging In definition - hacker
Gaining access to a computer system through an authentication process. Typically, a username and a secret password are used to authenticate a user in the login process. Increasingly, because of security concerns biometric means such as fingerprints or access cards are being used instead of passwords.

See Also: Authentication; Fingerprinting; Password.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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