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Facebook – an information security risk for organisations that haven’t identified effective strategies for harnessing social media for their strategic benefit.

FAST – the Federation Against Software Theft, the world’s first anti-piracy organisation working to protect the intellectual property of software publishers. See website at: www.fast.org.uk.

File sharing – the public sharing of files across a network, so that a number of users are able to access and use the same file.

Filter – is a software pattern or mask that is designed so that some types of items can pass through it while others will be caught and prevented or discarded.

Fingerprint recognition – biometric authentication using fingerprints.

Firefox – an open source browser.

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