Credential stuffing
Automatically trying leaked email-password pairs from one breach against many other sites.
Learn it through a story
- Who Goes There, and What Are They Allowed to Do? (Cybersecurity for Juniors 3, Ch 3)
Related terms
- Credential The username-and-password (or similar) pair that lets you into an account.
- Credential reuse Using the same password on more than one account.
- Credential rotation Replacing a leaked key or password with a fresh one, rather than only hiding the old one.
- CTF (Capture The Flag) A legal competition built around finding planted security flaws in purpose-built systems.
- CVSS Common Vulnerability Scoring System, a standard way of rating vulnerability severity.
- Cyber hygiene The everyday habits that keep you safer online, the way regular habits keep you healthy offline.