Evil twin
A fake wifi access point set up with a name close enough to a real one to trick people into connecting.
Learn it through a story
- Orientation Week Wifi (Cybersecurity for Juniors 2, Ch 1)
Related terms
- Encryption Scrambling data so only the intended recipient can read it.
- Environment variable A way to supply a secret to running code without ever writing it into the code itself.
- Escalation Passing a confirmed concern to someone with more authority or context to act on it.
- Evil twin network A fake wifi hotspot built to look like a trusted one.
- Excessive agency An AI agent having more permission or capability than its task actually requires.
- Excessive data exposure An API returning more fields than the client actually needs, relying on the client to filter.