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ATM skimming (noun) Jan 26, 2021

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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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APT side hustle (noun) Jan 19, 2021

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

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endpoint (noun) Jan 12, 2021

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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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unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) (noun) Jan 05, 2021

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An extension of the traditional Basic Input/Output System or BIOS that, during the boot process, facilitates the communication between the computer’s firmware and the computer’s operating system.

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Daemon (noun) Dec 29, 2020

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

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greyware (noun) Dec 22, 2020

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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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fuzzing (noun) Dec 15, 2020

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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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Unix (noun) Dec 08, 2020

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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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deep packet inspection (DPI) (noun) Dec 01, 2020

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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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rootkit (noun) Nov 24, 2020

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

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