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Bandwidth

A description of transmission capacity. Commonly referred to in layman's terms as the speed of your Internet connection.

Bayesian Additive Regression Tree (BART)

A supervised learning approach for classification and regression by building a sum-of-tree model, where the basic component is a binary tree.

BlackBerry

A portable smart device made by Waterloo.

Blackhat

A cyber-skilled individual who uses his skills for illegal or illicit purposes.

Blind Drop

An e-mail, FTP server, or similar “drop” point where stolen data is sent to an attacker.

Bloover/II (Blooover)

A proof-of-concept application, running on Java, used as a phone auditing tool (snarfs phonebooks). It is also called the “Bluetooth Wireless Technology Hoover” because of ...

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