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...
Cross-site request forgery
Also known as a “one-click attack” or “session riding,” a malicious website exploit where an attacker transmits unauthorized commands to a website from an ostensibly trusted user’s browser.
Crowd sourcing
Getting services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group, especially from an online community, as opposed to employees, suppliers, or experts.
Cryptographic key
A parameter that defines the output of a cryptographic algorithm. A key affects how plaintext is to be encrypted by a given cryptographic algorithm, and how the resulting ciphertext is...
Cryptography
Literally, “secret writing”: the practice and study of techniques for securing communications in the presence of adversaries. In a typical instance of cryptography, plaintext data is converted through a cryptographic...