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From the intrusion kill chain model, the first part of an exploitation technique where the hacker tricks their victims into revealing their login credentials. I…
From the intrusion kill chain model, a malicious code delivery technique that allows hackers to send code of their choosing to their victim’s browser. XSS takes…
An electro-mechanical device used to break Enigma-enciphered messages about enemy military operations during the Second World War. The first bombe–named Victory…
The process of evaluating the security of a system or network by simulating an attack on it. Sometimes called "ethical hacking" or white hat hacking. The phrase…
The art of convincing a person or persons to take an action that may or may not be in their best interests. Social engineering in some form or the other has bee…
A class of software-security-weakness-issues where independent researchers discover a software flaw before the owners of the code discover it. Zero-day, or 0-da…
A word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters. For example, cracking a columnar transposition cipher by hand involves looking for a…
A social engineering scam where fraudsters spoof an email message from a trusted company officer that directs a staff member to transfer funds to an account con…
From the intrusion kill chain model, a program that provides command and control services for an attack campaign. While the first ever deployed RAT is unknown, …
Technology, software and hardware deployed without explicit organizational approval. In the early days of the computer era from the 1980s through the 2000s secu…
