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.

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The practice of sending a high volume of spamming multifactor authentication (MFA) login attempts to an account until the account’s owner accepts the MFA prompt out of desperation, wishing to make the ...

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" ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Relativity CSO & CIO, Amanda Fennell, champions the data security of Relativity and its customers. She and her team were recognized as 2021 CSO50 award winners and received a 2021 Cybersecurity ...

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An email authentication and reporting protocol that extends the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), allowing a domain owner to establish a policy in their DNS records ...

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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