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Definitions[]

Computer security[]

An alert is

[n]otification that a specific attack has been directed at an organization's information systems.[1]
[a] formal notification that an incident has occurred which may develop into a Business Continuity Management or Crisis Management invocation.[2]

An alert is "[t]imely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits."[3]

Emergency[]

An alert "indicates that something significant has happened or may happen."[4]

General[]

An alert is

Search engine[]

Search engines, like Google, allow you to specify words, phrases or tags that you want checked periodically, with results of those searches [alerts] returned to you by e-mail.[7]

Wireless[]

An alert is a

notification[], typically in the form of a text or multimedia message, containing time-sensitive information (event details, weather, news, services updates) that are pushed to a mobile subscriber who has opted-in to receive this information.[8]

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