Cluster
A set of loosely or tightly connected computers that work together and can, for practical purposes, be treated as a single system.
Cold boot attack
A kind of side-channel attack in which an attacker with physical access to a device retrieves encryption keys after a cold reboot of the system. A computer is “cold booted”...
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
A qualitative public framework for rating the severity of security vulnerabilities in software. The acronym CVSS is commonly used.
Copy-paste compromise
Successful breaches accomplished by using only open source tools. The adversary does use any original code to traverser the intrusion kill chain.
Covert response
An incident response that is to some degree concealed from those not involved in the response.
Credential stealing
From the intrusion kill chain model, the first part of an exploitation technique where the hacker tricks their victims into revealing their login credentials.
Credential stuffing
A type of attack in which hackers take credential combinations, typically username and password pairs, that have been exposed in earlier data breaches and try them against login sites. Credential...