Terms often used in discussions of cyber security, briefly defined. Your corrections, suggestions, and recommendations for additional entries are welcome: email the editor at editor@thecyberwire.com.

Andrew Hammond, Ph.D. is Historian & Curator at the International Spy Museum, home of the world's preeminent collection of intelligence-related artifacts. Previous chapters have included seven years ...

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An approach to detecting mallware in which a unique identifier, normally a specific string of code or the hash of known malicious code, is established as associated with some piece of malware. When ...

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Andrew Hammond, Ph.D. is Historian & Curator at the International Spy Museum, home of the world's preeminent collection of intelligence-related artifacts. Previous chapters have included seven years ...

A forensic technique where practitioners capture an entire image of a system and analyze the contents offline. "dead-box forensics" on the Word Notes podcast.

Ineffectual confirmation of a user's identity or authentication in session management. One of OWASP's top-ten categories of application security risk. "OWASP identification and authentication failure" ...

Software or vulnerability testing that tests an application's internal structures as opposed to its functionality. White-box testing uses an internal perspective on, and knowledge of, the system under ...

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A qualitative public framework for rating the severity of security vulnerabilities in software. The acronym CVSS is commonly used. "Common Vulnerability Scoring System" on the Word Notes podcast.

A defensive cyber operation carried out by US Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) at the request of an allied nation. "hunt forward operation" on the Word Notes podcast.