Credential
The username-and-password (or similar) pair that lets you into an account.
Learn it through a story
- The Password That Guarded Nothing (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 1)
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Related terms
- Consent A clear, specific agreement to a particular use of your data, not a vague blanket approval.
- Container escape A process breaking out of its container boundary to affect the underlying host.
- Containment Isolating an infected device to stop an attack from spreading further.
- 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.
- Credential stuffing Automatically trying leaked email-password pairs from one breach against many other sites.