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evasion

evasion

1 8.4
Techniques that get past digital security so harmful programs are not found
  • noun
  • /ɪˈveɪʒən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : evasión
  • Using sophisticated techniques, the malware managed to achieve evasion against detection software.

Examples

  • 4) Tax evasion is much more pervasive in the non-state sector than in the state sector.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Every other respondent gave at least one description of a situation in which tax evasion would be considered justified.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Finally, while tax evasion is also a significant problem for the Israeli state, the difference is unclear.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Three respondents said that tax evasion is never acceptable.

    Academic text (1994)
  • In Argentina, tax evasion is widespread.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The metaphors encourage control, surveillance, and capitalist expansion through computer technologies, and also evasion and resistance through computer technologies.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The authors will release a previously unpublished JavaScript evasion technique and demonstrate its use in evading a variety of present-day defensive technologies.

    Blog text (11)
  • The hacker's evasion of the security system went unnoticed for weeks.

  • The company's evasion of digital security protocols allowed the attackers to infiltrate their network.

Synonyms

evasive action
vsevasion
6 4.9

A quick move to avoid danger

focuses on methods to bypass computer security and hide attacks
dodging
vsevasion
2 5.0

A quick movement to avoid someone or something, for example a ball

works against digital defenses to stop detection of harmful actions
circumvention
vsevasion
1 8.2

An action that avoids a rule or law by finding a clever way around it

focuses on bypassing technical protections to hide harmful activity
eluding
vsevasion
1 8.1

Avoiding being caught by using clever plans or quick moves

targets computer security systems specifically rather than escaping people
surreption
vsevasion
  • Archaic
9.9

Doing something in secret to avoid being noticed

involves bypassing detection specifically not just acting in secret

Antonyms

91 2.9

Finding or noticing something that is hidden and hard to see

88 3.9

Making a secret or hidden thing known to people

Compounds

tax evasion
  • Formal
32 5.3

Not paying taxes on purpose by hiding income or lying to tax officials

How Stealthy

backdoor
  • Specialized
9 7.2
evasion
  • Specialized
1 8.4
surreption
  • Archaic
9.9

Surface Forms

evasion singular
evasions plural

Morphology

evasion = evade (transparent) = evade + sion

In computing contexts the noun names techniques or acts of evading detection, a context-specific but semantically direct nominalization of 'evade'.

Etymology

Evasion comes from Latin e- 'out' and vadere 'to go', so it literally means 'going out' or escaping. That's why in computer security an evasion is a trick that helps malware slip past detectors and stay hidden.