STEM Dictionary

Information Technology:

Packet

Partition

Password Sniffing

Patch

Peer-to-Peer

Phishing

Physical Layer

Ping

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)

Port

Port Scan

Presentation Layer

Protocol

Proxy (as in Proxy server)

Port Scan

Definition

the act of systematically scanning a computer’s ports

Sentence

A port scan is useful to see ways hackers can attack you.

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 1104229, 1501756, and 1902474.