Advanced Glossary
Browse 4 advanced terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
4 Advanced Terms
- Lateral Join
- A SQL join where the right-hand subquery can reference columns from the left-hand table — like a correlated subquery but returning multiple rows/columns....
- Phantom Type
- A type parameter that appears in a type's definition but is not used in any of its fields — it exists only to carry compile-time information. Used to encode...
- Supply Chain Attack
- An attack that targets an organization indirectly by compromising a trusted third-party vendor, library, or update mechanism — hijacking the trust chain rather...
- Watering Hole Attack
- An attack that compromises a website frequently visited by a target group, rather than attacking the targets directly. Like poisoning a watering hole instead...
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