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Payload definition - hacker
Associated with a computer virus, it is the malicious software content that the virus executes. The term payload is also the actual data that is encapsulated in a packet and is transmitted on a network. Payload is also a critical concept in Web services, identifying the data that is transmitted. The payload in Web services is XML based, thus delivering the data in a standardized format that can be understood by many diverse applications.

See Also: Encapsulation; Network; Packet; Virus.

Symantec Security Response. Glossary. [Online, July 15, 2004.]. http:// securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/refa.html.

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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