Attack Glossary
Browse 9 attack terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
9 Attack Terms
- Brute Force
- Brute Force is an attack method that systematically tries every possible combination of a password, encryption key, or other secret value until the correct one...
- Clickjacking
- An attack where a malicious site loads a target site in a transparent iframe positioned over a decoy UI, tricking users into clicking buttons on the hidden...
- Dependency Confusion
- A supply chain attack where an attacker publishes a malicious package on a public registry with the same name as a private/internal package. Package managers...
- Exploit
- Exploit in cybersecurity is a piece of code, software, data sequence, or technique that takes advantage of a vulnerability in a computer system, application,...
- IDOR
- Insecure Direct Object Reference — a vulnerability where an application exposes internal object IDs (user IDs, file names, database keys) in API endpoints...
- Padding Oracle Attack
- A cryptographic attack that abuses padding error responses to gradually decrypt or forge ciphertext. It shows up in application security, identity,...
- Privilege Escalation
- The act of exploiting a vulnerability or misconfiguration to gain elevated access rights beyond those originally granted, moving from a limited user to...
- Prompt Injection
- An attack where malicious instructions are embedded in user input to override an LLM's system prompt or instructions. Direct injection modifies the prompt...
- Supply Chain Security
- Protecting the integrity of software by securing every component in the supply chain — source code, build systems, dependencies, CI/CD pipelines, and artifact...
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- Cryptography (2 terms in common)
- Security (1 terms in common)
- Api (1 terms in common)
- Access Control (1 terms in common)
- Code (1 terms in common)
- Browser (1 terms in common)
- Password (1 terms in common)
- Vulnerability (1 terms in common)
- Authorization (1 terms in common)
- Llm (1 terms in common)
- Supply Chain (1 terms in common)
- Ui (1 terms in common)
- Devsecops (1 terms in common)
- Dependencies (1 terms in common)
- Web Security (1 terms in common)
- Package Manager (1 terms in common)
- Post Exploitation (1 terms in common)