Firmware
The built-in software that runs a device, updated by the manufacturer to fix bugs and flaws.
Learn it through a story
- The Hostel Router Hack (Cybersecurity for Juniors 2, Ch 6)
Related terms
- Expiry (exp) The field declaring when a token should stop being valid.
- False positive An alert that looks suspicious automatically but turns out to be harmless.
- Finding chain Combining several smaller weaknesses into one larger, more serious exploit path.
- Flat network A network with no internal boundaries, where most things can reach most other things.
- Foothold A first point of access an attacker uses to reach further into a larger network.
- Foundation The shared core knowledge that makes any later specialisation easier to learn.