Word Notes

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  • Encore: ATM skimming (noun)

    The process of stealing ATM customer credentials by means of physically and covertly installing one or more devices onto a public ATM machine.

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    5 min
  • Encore: APT side hustle (noun)

    A nation-state hacking group’s practice of funding its town activities through cybercrime or cyber mercenary work.

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    6 min
  • Encore: endpoint (noun)

    A device connected to a network that accepts communications from other endpoints like laptops, mobile devices, IoT equipment, routers, switches, and any tool on the security stack.

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    7 min
  • Encore: Daemon (noun)

    An operating system program running in the background designed to perform a specific task when certain conditions or events occur.

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    5 min
  • Encore: greyware (noun)

    Also known as spyware and adware, it is a software category where developers design the application neither to cause explicit harm nor to accomplish some conventional legitimate purpose, but when run, usually annoys the user and often performs actions that the developer did not disclose, and that the user regards as undesirable.

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    6 min
  • Encore: fuzzing (noun)

    An automatic software bug and vulnerability discovery technique that inputs invalid, unexpected and/or random data or fuzz into a program and then monitors the program's reaction to it.

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    6 min
  • Encore: Unix (noun)

    A family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original Unix system built by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie in the 1960s.

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    6 min
  • Encore: deep packet inspection (DPI) (noun)

    A network monitoring and filtering technique that examines both the header information and the payload of every packet traversing a network access point.

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    6 min
  • Encore: rootkit (noun)

    A clandestine set of applications designed to give hackers access and control over a target device.

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    7 min

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