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- WAN
See wide area network (WAN).
- war driving
Driving around with a laptop looking for open wireless access points with which to communicate.
- warm site
A site that provides some capabilities in the event of a disaster. The organization that wants to use a warm site will need to install, configure, and reestablish operations on systems that might already exist in the warm site.
- weak key
A cipher hole that can be exploited.
- weak key attack
An attack that looks for cipher holes.
- web proxy
A type of proxy that is used to act on behalf of a web client or web server.
- web server
A server that holds and delivers web pages and other web content using HTTP. See also Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
- WEP
See Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). ...
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