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5:56

intelligence (noun)

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2024/09/10

Enjoy this special encore episode. The process of turning raw information into intelligence products that leaders use to make decisions with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:04

SaaS (noun)

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2024/09/03

Enjoy this special edition of Word Notes: A cloud-based software distribution method where app infrastructure, performance, and security are maintained by a service provider and accessible to users, typically via subscription, from any device connected to the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:32

brute-force attack (noun)

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2024/08/27

Enjoy this special encore episode.A cryptographic hack that relies on guessing all possible letter combinations of a targeted password until the correct codeword is discovered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:28

decryption (noun)

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2024/08/20

Enjoy this special encore of Word Notes. A process of converting encrypted data into something that a human or computer can understand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:37

denial-of-service attack (noun)

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2024/08/13

Enjoy this encore episode: A cyber attack designed to impair or eliminate access to online services or data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:59

cold boot attack (noun)

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2024/08/06

Please enjoy this special encore episode of Word Notes. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:16

Encore: cloud computing (noun)

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2024/07/30

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.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:52

Encore: APT (noun)

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2024/07/23

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.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5:54

Encore: backdoor (noun)

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2024/07/16

An undocumented or publicly unknown method to access a computer system undetected or to break a cypher used to encode messages.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5:30

Encore: watering hole attack (noun)

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2024/07/09

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.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5:18

Encore: network telescope (noun)

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2024/07/02

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.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5:21

Encore: SOC Triad (noun)

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2024/06/25

A best practice for framing cyber intelligence critical information requirements that recommends collecting and consolidating data from three specific sources: endpoint, network and log.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5:28

Encore: supply chain attacks (noun)

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2024/06/18

Also known as a third-party attack or a value-chain attack, advisory groups gain access to a targeted victims network by first infiltrating a business partner's network that has access to the victim's systems or data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4:20

Encore: taint analysis (noun)

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2024/06/11

The process of software engineers checking the flow of user input in application code to determine if unanticipated input can affect program execution in malicious ways.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4:57

Encore: ATM skimming (noun)

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2024/06/04

The process of stealing ATM customer credentials by means of physically and covertly installing one or more devices onto a public ATM machine.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5:29

Encore: APT side hustle (noun)

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2024/05/28

A nation-state hacking group’s practice of funding its town activities through cybercrime or cyber mercenary work.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:05

Encore: endpoint (noun)

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2024/05/21

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.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5:56

Encore: unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI)...

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2024/05/14

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4:49

Encore: Daemon (noun)

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2024/05/07

An operating system program running in the background designed to perform a specific task when certain conditions or events occur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5:18

Encore: greyware (noun)

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2024/04/30

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.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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