Attribution Glossary
Browse 6 attribution terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
6 Attribution Terms
- Attribution License
- A license that requires downstream users to give credit to the original creator when redistributing or reusing the work. In software and open content contexts,...
- Cyber Attribution
- Cyber Attribution is the analytical process of assessing who is responsible for malicious cyber activity and how confident that assessment is. Security teams...
- False Flag
- A deceptive tactic meant to make an intrusion, malware family, or campaign appear to come from a different actor than the real one. In cyber operations,...
- Hat Tip
- A brief acknowledgment or credit to someone who inspired, discovered, or contributed to an idea. It is common in writing, talks, and online threads.
- Reverse DNS
- A DNS lookup that maps an IP address back to a hostname using PTR records instead of resolving a hostname to an IP. Reverse DNS is useful in logging,...
- Threat Actor
- Any individual, group, or organization that poses a cybersecurity threat — from script kiddies to nation-state hacking units, from disgruntled insiders to...
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