Glossary of Terms

Login

Glossary

Filter:

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z All

B

B

B1

B1FF*

B2

B3

Backdoor account

Backdoor Trojan

Background checks

Background Investigations #

Background Processing

Backspace And Overstrike*

Back-To-Back Connection

Backup

Backup facility

Backup Procedures

Backup retention plan

Backward Channel

Backward Combatability*

Backward Recovery

BAD*

Band

Bandwidth Compression

Bang

Banner

Banner*

Base

Base C4 Systems Security Office

Base Computer Systems Security Officer

Basic Software (nonfunctional)

BASIC*

Basic/Generic Management Issues#

Batch Processing

Batch*

Baud

Bboard*

BBS

BCC

BCD

BCI

BCSSO

Bd

Beam*

Beep*

Behavioral scanning

Bell-La Padula Security Model

Bell-LaPadula Model

Bells And Whistles*

Benign

Benign Environment

BER

BERT

Beta*

Between-The-Lines Entry

Bible*

BiCapitalization*

Biff*

Big Red Switch*

Bignum*

Bigot*

Binary

Binary Exponential Backoff

Binary Notation

Binary Synchronous Communication

Binary-Coded Decimal

Binary-Coded Decimal Code

Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code

Binary-Coded Decimal Notation

Binary-Coded Decimal Representation

Binding

Binding/Handshaking#

Biometric authentication

B-ISDN

Bi-Sync

Bit

Bit Configuration

Bit Error Ratio

Bit Error Ratio Tester

Bit Stream Transmission

Bit Synchronization

Bitblt*

Bit-By-Bit Asynchronous Operation

Bit-Count Integrity

BITNET*

Bit-Paired Keyboard*

Bits Per Second

Bits*

Bit-Sequence Independence

Bit-Synchronous Operation

BIU

Bixie*

Black

BLACK Equipment Area (BEA)

Black hat hackers

Blast*

Blended threats

Blink*

Blit*

Blivet*

BLOB*

Block

Block Character

Block Check Character

Block encryption

Block Transfer Attempt

Block Transfer Computations*

Block Transfer Efficiency

Block Transfer Failure

Block Transfer Rate

Block Transfer Time

Block-Error Probability

Blocking Criterion

Blocking Factor

Blocking Formulas

Block-Loss Probability

Block-Misdelivery Probability

BLT*

Body

Border firewalls

Bourne Shell and Bourne Again Shell (BASH)

BPI

BPOC

BPS

BQS*

BR

Breach

Bridge

Broken*

Broket*

BRS*

Brute Force And Ignorance*

Brute-force guessing

BSA

BSD*

BSE

Budget

Budget And Accounting Act

Budget And Accounting Procedures Act Of 1950

Buffer

Buffer overflow

Buffer Overflow*

Bug

Bugging

Bulk Encryption

Bum*

Bump*

Burble*

Buried Treasure*

Burn-In Period*

Burst Transmission#

Bus

Bus Interface Unit

Business Aspects Of Information Security#

Business champions

Business continuity plan

Business process analysis

Buzz*

BW

BWQ*

Byte

Bum*

vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity. "I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code. " "I spent half the night bumming the interrupt code. " In elder days, John McCarthy (inventor of LISP) used to compare some efficiency-obsessed hackers among his students to "ski bums"; thus, optimization became "program bumming", and eventually just "bumming".
To squeeze out excess; to remove something in order to improve whatever it was removed from (without changing function; this distinguishes the process from a featurectomy).
n. A small change to an algorithm, program, or hardware device to make it more efficient. "This hardware bum makes the jump instruction faster. " Usage now uncommon, largely superseded by v. tune (and n. tweak, hack), though none of these exactly capture sense 2.
All these uses are rare in Commonwealth hackish, because in the parent dialects of English `bum' is a rude synonym for `buttocks'.