Scavenging Technique

Scavenging Technique definition - hacker
Used by crackers who dial up to the Internet hoping to find connections left dangling when somebody else abruptly hung up. They can then exploit the connections. The term is also used to describe the activity of hunting for Residual Data on erased devices.

See Also: Crackers; Residue; Sanitize; Internet.

Graham, R. Hacking Lexicon. [Online, 2001.] Robert Graham Website. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resource_files/documentation/hacking-dict.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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