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• washing"a marketing effort designed to imply that a company's brands and products involve artificial intelligence technologies, even though the connection may be tenuous or non-existent."
• Weakness Definition: A shortcoming or imperfection in software code, design, architecture, or deployment that, under proper conditions, could become a vulnerability or contribute to the introduction of vulnerabilities.Related Term(s): vulnerability
• Web site A collection of Uniform Resource Indicators (URIs, including URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)) in the control of one administrative entity. May include different types of URIs (i.e., file transfer protocol sites, telnet sites, as well as World Wide Web sites). 
• White Team Definition: A group responsible for refereeing an engagement between a Red Team of mock attackers and a Blue Team of actual defenders of information systems.Related Term(s): Blue Team, Red Team
• word embedding"a popular framework to represent text data as vectors which has been used in many machine learning and natural language processing tasks. . . . A word embedding, trained on word co-occurrence in text corpora, represents each word (or common phrase) w as a d-dimensional word vector w~ 2 Rd. It(...)
• Word Processor A software program used for preparing documents 
• Work Factor Definition: An estimate of the effort or time needed by a potential adversary, with specified expertise and resources, to overcome a protective measure.
• World Wide Web The WWW is made up of all of the computers on the Internet which use HTML-capable software (Netscape, Explorer, etc.) to exchange data. Data exchange on the WWW is characterized by easy-to-use graphical interfaces, hypertext links, images, and sound. Today the WWW has become synonymous with(...)
• Worm Definition: A self-replicating, self-propagating, self-contained program that uses networking mechanisms to spread itself.
• Worm A malicious software program capable of moving from computer to computer over a network without being carried by another program.