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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 U.S. law designed to improve the portability and accountability of health insurance coverage. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/hipaa…
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…
A mathematical method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that something is true, without revealing any information apart …
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…
NDR tools provide anomaly detection and potential attack prevention by collecting telemetry across the entire intrusion kill chain on transactions across the ne…
A reflection or amplification distributed denial-of-service attack in which hackers query Internet network time protocol servers, NTP servers for short, for the…
A network switch configuration setting that forwards a copy of each incoming and outgoing packet to a third switch port. Also known as SPAN or Switched Port Ana…
From the intrusion kill-chain model, the delivery of a “lure” via a text message to a potential victim by pretending to be some trustworthy person or organizati…
