CVSS
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (acronym).
Cyber privateering
The practice of a government’s hiring of a contractor, often but not always a criminal group, to conduct cyberespionage on its behalf. The cyber privateer receives a list of intelligence...
Cyber riot
A crowd-sourced cyber attack, sometimes inspired by but seldom closely controlled by a state security agency.
Cyber vandalism
A cyber attack without any obvious rational criminal, political, or ideological motive, usually defacement of a vulnerable website to display the hacker’s prowess.
Cyber vigilantism
A hack directed against a cyber criminal site or organization. While extralegal (and often illegal) cyber vigilantism is conducted to impede or punish cyber crime, and not necessarily crimes of...
Cybersecurity skills gap
The difference between organizational employee job requirements and the skillsets available in the labor market.
Daemon definition
An operating system program running in the background designed to perform a specific task when certain conditions or events occur.
Dark Patterns
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