Cybersecurity Concepts

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Any circumstance or event with the potential to adversely affect a system through unauthorized access, destruction, disclosure, modification of data, or denial of service.

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A threat

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Pretending to be something or someone other than yourself.

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Spoofing

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Modifying something on a disk, network, memory, or elsewhere.

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Tampering

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Claiming you didn't do something or were not responsible.

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Repudiation

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Providing information to someone not authorized to have it.

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Information disclosure

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Allowing someone to do something they are not authorized to do.

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Elevation of privilege

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Initiated by an insider, which is an entity inside of a security perimeter.

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Inside attack

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Utilized in outside attacks; focal points for collecting stolen information that launch automated attacks and distribute spam.

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Botnets

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An aggregation of compromised computers, turning them into robots used by attackers.

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A botnet

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A flaw or weakness in a system’s design, implementation, operation, or management that could be exploited to violate the system’s security policies.

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Vulnerability