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8:04

OWASP vulnerable and outdated components (noun)

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2025/06/24

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. Software libraries, frameworks, packages, and other components, and their dependencies (third-party code that each component uses) that have inherent security weaknesses, either through newly discovered vulnerabilities or because newer versions have superseded the deployed version. Audio reference Link: "⁠The Panama Papers: A Closer Look⁠," Late Night with Seth Meyers, YouTube, 12 April 2016 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

8:27

OWASP software and data integrity failures (noun)

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2025/06/10

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. Code and data repositories that don't protect against unauthorized changes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:38

OWASP server-side request forgery (noun)

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2025/06/03

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. An attack technique that leverages an unprotected web server as a proxy for attackers to send commands through to other computers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:04

OWASP security logging and monitoring failures (noun)

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2025/05/27

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. The absence of telemetry that could help network defenders detect and respond to hostile attempts to compromise a system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5:58

OWASP identification and authentication failures (noun)

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2025/05/20

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. Ineffectual confirmation of a user's identity or authentication in session management. CyberWire Glossary link: ⁠https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-identification-and-authentication-failure⁠ Audio reference link: “⁠Mr. Robot Hack - Password Cracking - Episode 1⁠.” YouTube Video. YouTube, September 21, 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9:16

Log4j vulnerability (noun)

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2025/05/13

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. 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. Learn more about

7:30

OWASP broken access control (noun)

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2025/05/06

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. Software users are allowed access to data or functionality contrary to the defined zero trust policy by bypassing or manipulating the installed security controls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:03

OWASP security misconfiguration (noun)

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2025/04/29

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. The state of a web application when it's vulnerable to attack due to an insecure configuration. CyberWire Glossary link: ⁠⁠https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-security-misconfiguration⁠⁠ Audio reference link: ⁠⁠“What Is the Elvish Word for Friend?”⁠⁠ Quora, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8:19

OWASP insecure design (noun)

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2025/04/22

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. A broad OWASP Top 10 software development category representing missing, ineffective, or unforeseen security measures. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-insecure-design Audio reference link: “Oceans Eleven Problem Constraints Assumptions.” by Steve Jones, YouTube, 4 November 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:32

OWASP injection (noun)

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2025/04/15

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes.A broad class of attack vectors, where an attacker supplies input to an applications command interpreter that results in unanticipated functionality. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-injection Audio reference link: “APPSEC Cali 2018 - Taking on the King: Killing Injection Vulnerabilities” YouTube Video. YouTube, March 19, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:35

OWASP cryptographic failures (noun)

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2025/04/08

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes.Code that fails to protect sensitive information. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-cryptographic-failure Audio reference link: Vandana Verma. “OWASP Spotlight - Project 10 - Top10.” YouTube Video. YouTube, January 4, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:23

account takeover prevention (noun)

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2025/04/01

Enjoy this encore of Word Notes. The prevention of the first part of an intrusion kill chain model exploitation technique, where the hacker steals valid logging credentials from a targeted victim. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/account-takeover-prevention Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:01

threat hunting (noun)

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2025/03/25

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. The process of proactively searching through networks to detect and isolate security threats, rather than relying on security solutions or services to detect those threats. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/threat-hunting Audio reference link: “My ‘Aha!" Moment - Methods, Tips, & Lessons Learned in Threat Hunting - sans Thir Summit 2019.” YouTube, YouTube, 25 Feb. 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

8:16

vulnerability management (noun)

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2025/03/18

The continuous practice of identifying classifying, prioritizing, remediating, and mitigating software vulnerabilities within this.CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/vulnerability-management Audio reference link: “Vulnerability Scanning - Comptia Security+ sy0-501 - 1.5.” YouTube, YouTube, 11 Nov. 2017, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:59

software bill of materials (SBOM) (noun)

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2025/03/11

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. A formal record containing the details and supply chain relationships of various components used in building software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9:02

zero trust (noun)

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2025/03/04

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. A security philosophy that assumes adversaries have already penetrated the digital environment and tries to reduce the potential impact by limiting access by people, devices, and software to only the resources essential to perform their function and nothing more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8:13

OT security (noun)

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2025/02/25

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes.Hardware and software designed to detect and prevent cyber adversary campaigns that target industrial operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:43

cybersecurity skills gap (noun)

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2025/02/18

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. The difference between organizational employee job requirements and the available skillsets in the potential employee pool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:05

digital transformation (noun)

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2025/02/11

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes.The use of technology to radically improve the performance or reach of the business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:32

bulletproof hosting (noun)

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2025/02/04

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes.Cloud services intended for cyber criminals and other bad actors designed to obstruct law enforcement and other kinds of government investigations, and to provide some protection against competitors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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