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M

MAC

MAC (Media Access Control)

Macdink

Machine Cryptosystem

Machine Instruction

Machine Language

Machine Learning

Machine-Oriented Language

Machine-Readable Medium

Macro

Macros

Magic

Magnetic Core Storage

Magnetic Disk Unit

Magnetic Drum Unit

Magnetic Field Intensity

Magnetic Flux Density

Magnetic Remanence

Magnetic Saturation

Magnetic stripe card

Mail server antivirus program

Mailbox

Maintainability

Maintenance Hook

Maintenance Key

Maintenance Of Configuration Documentation

Maintenance Procedures, Contract Employee

Maintenance Procedures, Local Employee

MAJCOM

MAJCOM C4 Systems Security Office

MAJCOM Computer System Security Manager

MAJCOM Computer System Security Manager (MCSSM)

Major incidents

Major Information System

Malicious links

Malicious Logic

Malicious payload

Malicious software (Malware)

Malware (malicious software)

MAN

MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)

Managed security service provider (MSSP)

Management Control Process

Management Information System

Management Of The Security Function

Manchester Encoding

Mandatory Access

Mandatory Access Control

Mandatory Access Control (MAC)

Mandatory Access Controls

Mandatory default algorithms

Mandatory Modification

Mandatory Protection

Mandatory vacations

Manged

Mangle

Mangler

Mango

Man-in-the-middle attack

Manipulation Detection

Manipulative Communications Deception

Manual Cryptosystem

Manual Remote Rekeying

MAPLESS

Marbles

Mark

Marking

Marking Of Media

Marking Of Sensitive Information

Mars

Martian

MASINT

Mask

Massage

Master Crypto-Ignition Key

Matching Programs

Material Symbol

Matrix

MATSYM

Maximum Access Time

Maximum Maytag Mode

Mbogo, Dr. Fred

MBSA

MCCB

MCCR

MCSSM

MCTL

MD5

MDC

Measure Of Effectiveness

Measurement And Signature Intelligence

Media

Media Access Control (MAC)

Media Convergence

Medium

Medium Access Control Sublayer

Meeces

MEECN

Meg

Mega

MEGO

Meltdown, Network

Meme

Memory

Memory (Non-Volatile)

Memory (Random)

Memory (Sequential)

Memory (Volatile)

Memory Address Translation Unit

Memory Bounds Checking

Memory Page Cache

Menu

MEP

MER

Message

Message Alignment Indicator

Message Authentication

Message Authentication Code

Message Authentication Codes

Message Broadcast

Message Distribution Center

Message Externals

Message Handling Systems

Message Indicator

Message integrity

Message Register Leads

Metal Particle Tape

Metamorphic viruses

Metasyntactic Variable

Method

Metric

Metrics

Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

Metropolitan Area Network MAN

MFTL

Mgt

MHS

MHz

MI

MIB

Mickey

Mickey Mouse Program

Micro

Microinstruction

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA)

Microsoft Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP)

Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE)

Microwave/Wireless Communications Security

MIJI

Militarily Critical Technology

MIL-STD

Minimal Protection

Minimizing security burdens

Minor Change To A System Of Records

Minor incidents

MINTERM

MIPR

MIPS

Misbug

Missile Address

Mission-Critical

Mission-Essential Unclassified Information

Miswart

MLS

MMC (Microsoft Management Console)

MOA

Mobile COMSEC Facility

Mobile Workstation Security

Moby

Mod

Mode

Mode Of Operation

Modem

Modes Of Operation

Modulo

MOE

Mongolian Hordes Technique

Monitor

Monitoring (e. g. , Data, Line)

Monkey, Scratch

Monographic Processing

Monty

Moof

MOP

Moria

MOU

Mouse

Mouse Droppings

Mouso

MPPE (Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption)

MRK

MRT

MS-DOS

MSE

MTBF

MTR

MTT

Mu

MUD

Muddie

Mudhead

Multichannel Information

Multics

Multilevel Device

Multilevel Mode

Multilevel Mode Or Multilevel Security Mode

Multilevel Processing

Multilevel Secure

Multilevel Security

Multilevel Security Mode

Multilevel Systems

Multiple Access

Multiple Access Rights Terminal

Multiprocessing

Multiprogramming

Multi-pronged attacks

Multi-Satellite Link

Multi-User Hosts

Multiuser Mode Of Operation

Multi-User Mode Of Operation

Multi-User Security Mode

Multi-User Security Mode Of Operation

Munch

Munching Squares

Mundane

Mung

Munge

Music

Mutter

Mutual Suspicion

Mutual Synchronization

Mutually Suspicious

Mutually Synchronized Network

MUX

Mw

Macro

/mak'roh/ [techspeak] n. A name (possibly followed by a formal arg list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of actual arguments) by a macro expander. This definition can be found in any technical dictionary; what those won't tell you is how the hackish connotations of the term have changed over time. The term `macro' originated in early assemblers, which encouraged the use of macros as a structuring and information-hiding device. During the early 1970s, macro assemblers became ubiquitous, and sometimes quite as powerful and expensive as HLLs, only to fall from favor as improving compiler technology marginalized assembler programming (see languages of choice). Nowadays the term is most often used in connection with the C preprocessor, LISP, or one of several special-purpose languages built around a macro-expansion facility (such as TeX or UNIX's [nt]roff suite). Indeed, the meaning has drifted enough that the collective `macros' is now sometimes used for code in any special-purpose application control language (whether or not the language is actually translated by text expansion), and for macro-like entities such as the `keyboard macros' supported in some text editors (and PC TSR or Macintosh INIT/CDEV keyboard enhancers).
pref. Large. Opposite of micro-. In the mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example, medical people) this competes with the prefix mega-, but hackers tend to restrict the latter to quantification.