Word Notes

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December 01, 2020 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
November 24, 2020 rootkit (noun)
A clandestine set of applications designed to give hackers access and control over a target device.

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7 min
November 17, 2020 tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) (noun)
A set of behaviors that precisely describes a cyber adversary attack campaign.

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7 min
November 10, 2020 cyber threat intelligence (CTI) (noun)
Information used by leadership to make decisions regarding the cybersecurity posture of their organization.

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7 min
November 03, 2020 identity theft (noun)
In this case Identity is the set of credentials, usually electronic that vouch for who you are and theft is to steal. The theft of a person's identity for purposes of fraud.

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4 min
October 30, 2020 The Malware Mash!

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4 min
October 27, 2020 Monte Carlo Simulation (noun)
A probability simulation technique used to understand the impact of risk and uncertainty in complex problems.

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7 min
October 20, 2020 Virtual Private Network (VPN) (noun)
A software, hardware or hybrid encryption layer between two devices on the network that makes the traffic between the sites opaque to the other devices on the same network.

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7 min
October 13, 2020 Network Time Protocol (NTP) attack (noun)
A reflection or amplification distributed denial-of-service attack in which hackers query Internet network time protocol servers, NTP servers for short, for the correct time, but spoof the destination address of their target victims.

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7 min
October 06, 2020 smishing (SMS phishing) (noun)
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 organization in order to trick the victim into revealing sensitive information. Smishing is a portmanteau word made of two other words, the acronym “SMS” and the cyber coinage “Phishing“. It’s a text-message-centric variation of the email-based phishing scams that have been around since the 1990s. The term “Smishing” arose in the late 2000s.

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5 min