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A fun and informative cybersecurity audio glossary from N2K.

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Homograph phishing (noun) Aug 16, 2022

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The use of similar-looking characters in a phishing URL to spoof a legitimate site.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/homograph-phishing

Audio reference link: “Mission Impossible III 2006 Masking 01,” uploaded by DISGUISE MASK, 28 July 2018.

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Anti-cheat software (noun) Aug 09, 2022

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Software designed to prevent cheating in video games.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/anti-cheat-software

Audio reference link: “The BIG Problem with Anti-Cheat,” by Techquickie, YouTube, 5 June 2020

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Pseudoransomware (noun) Aug 02, 2022

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Malware, in the guise of ransomware, that destroys data rather than encrypts.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/pseudoransomware

Audio reference link: “Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn | the Dark Knight,” by YouTube, 2 November 2019.

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Trusted Platform Module (TPM) (noun) Jul 26, 2022

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A browser configuration control that prevents accessing resources within a private network.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/trusted-platform-module

Audio reference link: “TPM (Trusted Platform Module) - Computerphile,” Computerphile, 23 July 2021

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Private Network Access (PNA) (noun) Jul 19, 2022

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A browser configuration control that prevents accessing resources within a private network.

CyberWire Glossary link.

Audio reference link: “Chrome Limits Access to Private Networks,” by Daniel Lowrie, ITProTV, YouTube, 19 January 2022.

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Web 3.0 (noun) Jul 12, 2022

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The potential next evolution of the worldwide web that decentralizes interaction between users and content away from the big silicon valley social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and towards peer-to-peer interaction using blockchain as the underlying technology.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/web-30

Audio reference link: “What Elon Musk Just Said about Metaverse, Web3 and Neuralink,” By Clayton Morris, Crypto News Daily, YouTube. 2 December 2021.

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Encore: Log4j vulnerability (noun) Jul 05, 2022

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An open source Java-based software tool available from the Apache Software Foundation designed to log security and performance information.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/log4j

Audio reference link: “CISA Director: The LOG4J Security Flaw Is the ‘Most Serious’ She’s Seen in Her Career,” by Eamon Javers (CNBC) and Jen Easterly (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Director) YouTube, 20 December 20 2021.

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Identity access management (IAM) (noun) Jun 28, 2022

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A set of solutions for ensuring that the right users can only access the appropriate resources.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/identity-and-access-management

Audio reference link: “The Wrath of Khan (1982) ‘Kirk’s Response,’” by Russell, YouTube, 16 May 2017.

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Policy Orchestration (noun) Jun 21, 2022

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The deployment of rules to the security stack across all data islands, cloud, SaaS applications, data centers, and mobile devices designed to manifest an organization's cybersecurity first principle strategies of zero trust, intrusion kill chain prevention, resilience, and risk forecasting.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/policy-orchestration

Audio reference link: “The Value of Using Security Policy Orchestration and Automation,” by David Monahan, uploaded by EMAResearch, 3 April, 2018

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Abstraction layer (noun) Jun 14, 2022

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A process of hiding the complexity of a system by providing an interface that eases its manipulation.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/abstraction-layer

Audio reference link: “What Is Abstraction in Computer Science,” by Codexpanse, YouTube, 29 October 2018.

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