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April 20, 2021 brute-force attack (noun)
A cryptographic hack that relies on guessing all possible letter combinations of a targeted password until the correct codeword is discovered.

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7 min
April 13, 2021 decryption (noun)
A process of converting encrypted data into something that a human or computer can understand.

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8 min
April 06, 2021 denial-of-service attack (noun)
A cyber attack designed to impair or eliminate access to online services or data.

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7 min
March 30, 2021 cold boot attack (noun)
A type of side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access to a computer performs a memory dump of a computer’s Random Access Memory or RAM during the reboot process in order to steal sensitive data.

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7 min
March 23, 2021 cloud computing (noun)
On-demand pay-as-you-go Internet delivered compute, storage, infrastructure, and security services that are partially managed by the cloud provider and partially managed by the customer.

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7 min
March 16, 2021 APT (noun)
An acronym for Advanced Persistent Threat to describe hacker groups or campaigns normally, but not always, associated with nation state cyber espionage and continuous low-level cyber conflict operations.

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7 min
March 09, 2021 backdoor (noun)
An undocumented or publicly unknown method to access a computer system undetected or to break a cypher used to encode messages.

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6 min
March 02, 2021 watering hole attack (noun)
From the intrusion kill chain model, a technique where the hacker compromises sites commonly visited by members of a targeted community in order to deliver a malicious payload to the intended victim.

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6 min
February 23, 2021 network telescope (noun)
Network observation systems designed to monitor globally unreachable but unused Internet address space or the Deep Web in order to study a wide range of interesting Internet phenomena.

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6 min
February 16, 2021 SOC Triad (noun)
A best practice for framing cyber intelligence critical information requirements that recommends collecting and consolidating data from three specific sources: endpoint, network and log.

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6 min