Cybersecurity Glossary

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Cybersecurity Glossary

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A-C

Blackhole Routing DDoS Defense

Broken Authentication in APIs

Broken Function Level Authorization

Broken Object Property Level Authorization in APIs

Buffer Overflow

CHARGEN Amplification DDoS

Check-in Automation Abuse

CLDAP Amplification DDoS

Command Injection

Content-Type HTTP Header

Credential Stuffing

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Cross-Site Scripting

D-F

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

DNS as a Vector for DoS Attacks

DNS Infiltration and Exfiltration

DNS NXDomain Attack

DNS On-Path Attack

DNS Security Test

DNS Server Compromise

Domain Hijacking

Domain Name Compromise

Domain Spoofing

DoS Attack Against the DNS

Dynamic DNS Resolution as an Obfuscation Technique

Field Consistency in Web Applications

Fileless Malware

Flight Status Checking Bots

Frequent Flyer Points Fraud

Gift Card Fraud

H-P

High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC)

HTTP Cookie Attacks

HTTP Flood Attack

ICMP Flood DDoS Attack

Improper API Inventory Management

Insecure Design

IP Fragmentation Attacks

IP NULL DDoS Attacks

JSON API DoS Attacks

L2TP Amplification DDoS Attacks

Local Recursive Resolver Hijacking

Look-to-book Abuse

Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC)

Memcached Amplification

Multi-Vector DDoS Attacks

Multicast DNS (mDNS) Amplification DDoS

NTP Amplification Attack

Phishing Attacks

Ping of Death Denial of Service (DoS) Attack

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Price Scraping on eCommerce Sites

Q-Z

QUIC Flood DDoS

R-U-Dead-Yet? DoS

#RefRef DoS Tool

Security Misconfiguration

Server-Side Request Forgery

Slowloris Denial of Service Attack

SNMP Amplification DDoS

SSDP Amplification DDoS Attacks

Stub Resolver Hijacking

TCP Connection Floods

Total Traffic DDoS

Trojan Horse Malware

UDP Flood DDoS Attacks

Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Business Flows

Unrestricted Resource Consumption in APIs

Unsafe Consumption of APIs

Volumetric Attack

Watering Hole Attack

XML API DoS Attacks

Zero-Day Vulnerabilities