Terms starting with “F”

A voter who departs the voting booth prior to registering her vote and cannot be recalled, possibly leaving the voting machine in a state such that the fleeing voter's partial choi...

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An attack that attempts to cause a failure in a system by providing more input than the system can process properly. Source: IETF RFC 4949 Ver 2

(opscan) A sheet of optical scan paper that is scanned to indicate that the results of a particular precinct should be deleted or "flushed," generally because of a counting error.

The act of directed (focused) attention to a party or parties alleged to have violated Department/Agency (D/A) acceptable use' policies and agreements for NSS. The alleged violatio...

A test methodology that assumes some knowledge of the internal structure and implementation detail of the assessment object. Also known as gray box testing. Source: NIST SP 800-53A...

Freedom of Information Act

When a person "likes" a Facebook page or connects with a social-media account, they will automatically see updates in their news feed

Family or assortment of characters of a given size and style, e.g., 9-point Bodoni modern. See type font.

an ethical hacking technique used to gather as much data as possible about a specific targeted computer system, an infrastructure and networks to identify opportunities to penetrat...

An election procedure that can only be used on the day of an election.

An individual who is not a citizen of the United States or a national of the United States and has not been lawfully admitted to the U.S. for permanent residence, as defined in 8 U...

An accurate bit-for-bit reproduction of the information contained on an electronic device or associated media, whose validity and integrity has been verified using an accepted algo...

A professional who locates, identifies, collects, analyzes, and examines data while preserving the integrity and maintaining a strict chain of custody of information discovered. (S...

Digital media that is completely wiped of all data, including nonessential and residual data, scanned for malware, and verified before use. (SP 800-86) (NISTIR)

The practice of gathering, retaining, and analyzing computer-related data for investigative purposes in a manner that maintains the integrity of the data.

A Fork Bomb works by using the fork() call to create a new process which is a copy of the original. By doing this repeatedly, all available processes on the machine can be taken up...

A formalization of the security determination for authorizing access to a specific type of classified or controlled unclassified information (CUI) categories or subcategories based...

Software development strategy that proves security design specifications. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Software engineering method used to specify, develop, and verify the software through application of a rigorous mathematically based notation and language. Source: Guide to the Sof...

A description of specific behaviors or security policies using formal languages, thus enabling the correctness of those behaviors/policies to be formally proven. Source: NIST SP 80...

Complete and convincing mathematical argument presenting the full logical justification for each proof step and for the truth of a theorem or set of theorems. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)...

A "term used to distinguish the pattern of prescoring of unfinished ballot cards or ballot cards (e.g. 312-, 228-, 52-Hole)." Cal. Regs. §20206

Source: NIST SP 800-126 Rev 2