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Published on 08.06.2018
What is it Social engineering is the use of deception to manipulate individuals into providing a particular response, generally for a fraudulent ...
MS-ISAC
Published on 07.20.2018
What is it An email bomb is an attack against an email inbox or server designed to overwhelm an inbox or inhibit the server’s normal function, re...
Published on 07.06.2018
What is it Phishing occurs when malicious actors masquerade as legitimate entities during electronic communication in an attempt to compromise sy...
MS-ISAC
Published on 06.22.2018
What it is Passwords are a critical yet basic authentication mechanism in information security that consists of a combination of alphabetic, nume...
Published on 06.19.2018
What it is Patching is the process of applying available updates to an operating system, website, software, hardware, or plugin. In information s...
MS-ISAC
Published on 06.19.2018
What it is Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an Internet communication protocol used to encrypt and securely transmit information be...
Published on 05.07.2018
What it is Typosquatting attempts to take advantage of typographical errors (i.e. “typos”) introduced by users when URLs are typed directly into ...
Published on 04.27.2018
What it is The CIA Triad is a benchmark model in information security designed to govern and evaluate how an organization handles data when it is...
Published on 04.20.2018
What it is Earlier this week, US-CERT released a Joint Technical Alert (TA18-106A) detailing state-sponsored Russian cyber activity targeting pri...
Published on 04.13.2018
What it is The principle of least privilege recommends that users, systems, and processes only have access to resources (networks, systems, and f...
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