Word Notes
A fun and informative cybersecurity audio glossary from N2K.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 272
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Encore: watering hole attack (noun)
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.…
00:05:30 |
Tue 09 Jul 2024
Encore: network telescope (noun)
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.
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00:05:18 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
Encore: SOC Triad (noun)
A best practice for framing cyber intelligence critical information requirements that recommends collecting and consolidating data from three specific sources: endpoint, network and log.
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00:05:21 |
Tue 25 Jun 2024
Encore: supply chain attacks (noun)
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'…
00:05:28 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
Encore: taint analysis (noun)
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.
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00:04:20 |
Tue 11 Jun 2024
Encore: ATM skimming (noun)
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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00:04:57 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
Encore: APT side hustle (noun)
A nation-state hacking group’s practice of funding its town activities through cybercrime or cyber mercenary work.
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00:05:29 |
Tue 28 May 2024
Encore: endpoint (noun)
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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00:06:05 |
Tue 21 May 2024
Encore: unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) (noun)
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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00:05:56 |
Tue 14 May 2024
Encore: Daemon (noun)
An operating system program running in the background designed to perform a specific task when certain conditions or events occur.
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00:04:49 |
Tue 07 May 2024
Encore: greyware (noun)
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…
00:05:18 |
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Encore: fuzzing (noun)
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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00:05:15 |
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Encore: Unix (noun)
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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Tue 16 Apr 2024
Encore: deep packet inspection (DPI) (noun)
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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00:05:34 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
Encore: rootkit (noun)
A clandestine set of applications designed to give hackers access and control over a target device.
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00:06:57 |
Tue 02 Apr 2024
Encore: tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) (noun) [Word Notes]
A set of behaviors that precisely describes a cyber adversary attack campaign.
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00:06:43 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Encore: cyber threat intelligence (CTI) (noun)
Information used by leadership to make decisions regarding the cybersecurity posture of their organization.
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00:06:02 |
Tue 19 Mar 2024
Encore: identity theft (noun)
In this case Identity is the set of credentials, usually electronic that vouch for who you are and theft is to steal. The theft of a person's identity for purposes of fraud.
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00:04:00 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
Encore: Monte Carlo Simulation (noun)
A probability simulation technique used to understand the impact of risk and uncertainty in complex problems.
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00:06:27 |
Tue 05 Mar 2024
Encore: Virtual Private Network (VPN) (noun)
A software, hardware or hybrid encryption layer between two devices on the network that makes the traffic between the sites opaque to the other devices on the same network.
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00:06:25 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
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