Cyber may refer to:
Computing and the Internet
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cybernetics
Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in regulatory and purposive systems. Cybernetics is named after an example of circular causal feedback, that of steering a ship, where the helmsperson m ...
, a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory and purposive systems
Crime and security
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Cyber crime, crime that involves computers and networks
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Convention on Cybercrime
The Convention on Cybercrime, also known as the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime or the Budapest Convention, is the first international treaty seeking to address Internet and computer crime (cybercrime) by harmonizing national laws, improving ...
, the first international treaty seeking to address Internet and computer crime, signed in 2001
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Cybercrime countermeasures
Cyber crime, or computer crime, refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network.Moore, R. (2005) "Cybercrime: Investigating High-Technology Computer Crime," Cleveland, Mississippi: Anderson Publishing. The computer may have been used i ...
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Cyber-attack
A cyberattack is any offensive maneuver that targets computer information systems, computer networks, infrastructures, or personal computer devices. An attacker is a person or process that attempts to access data, functions, or other restricted ...
, an offensive manoeuvre that targets computing devices, information systems, infrastructures and
Cyberinfrastructure United States federal research funders use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing a ...
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Cybersecurity, or computer security
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Cybersex trafficking, the live streaming of coerced sexual acts and or rape
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Cyberterrorism, use of the Internet to carry out terrorism
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Cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare is the use of cyber attacks against an enemy state, causing comparable harm to actual warfare and/or disrupting vital computer systems. Some intended outcomes could be espionage, sabotage, propaganda, manipulation or economic war ...
, the targeting of computers and networks in war
Other uses in computing and the Internet
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CDC Cyber
The CDC Cyber range of mainframe-class supercomputers were the primary products of Control Data Corporation (CDC) during the 1970s and 1980s. In their day, they were the computer architecture of choice for scientific and mathematically inten ...
, a range of mainframe computers
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Cyberbullying, bullying or harassment using electronic means
* Cybercafé or
Internet café, a business which provides internet access
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Cyberculture, emergent cultures based on the use of computer networks
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Cybergoth sub-culture
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Cybersex (colloquially)
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Cyberstalking, use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, group, or organization
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Cyberspace
Cyberspace is a concept describing a widespread interconnected digital technology. "The expression dates back from the first decade of the diffusion of the internet. It refers to the online world as a world 'apart', as distinct from everyday rea ...
, the global technology environment
Arts, entertainment, and media
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CY8ER, a five-person EDM idol group
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Cyber (Marvel Comics), a Marvel comics supervillain
* Cyber (Russian: Кибер), a Soviet sci-fi character (see
Strugatsky's works)
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Doctor Cyber, a DC Comics supervillain
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Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyber ...
, a science fiction genre
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Centre for Integrative Bee Research
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilitie ...
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Cybernetics (disambiguation)
Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems, their structures, constraints, and possibilities, but has other definitions.
Cybernetics may also refer to:
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Cybernetic organism
A cyborg ()—a portmanteau of ''cybernetic'' and ''organism''—is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. , or cyborg, a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts
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Cyberneticist, one who studies
cybernetics
Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in regulatory and purposive systems. Cybernetics is named after an example of circular causal feedback, that of steering a ship, where the helmsperson m ...
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Cyber City (disambiguation) Cyber City or Cybercity may refer to:
* Cyber City, Gurgaon, an industrial park in Gurgaon, India
* Cyber City, Kochi, a proposed Special Economic Zone information technology park adjacent to Kochi, India
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Cyberspace (disambiguation)
Cyberspace is a term for virtual reality coined by William Gibson.
Cyberspace may also refer to:
* ''Cyberspace'' (album), a 2000 music album by composer Eloy Fritsch
*Cyberspace (role-playing game), a cyberpunk role-playing game
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Cyborg (disambiguation)
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